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COVER CROPS IN HILLSIDE AGRICULTURE Farmer Innovation with Mucuna Daniel Buckles, Bernard Triomphe, and Gustavo Sain IDRC/CIMMYT 1998 ISBN 0-88936-841-4 230 pp. Disponible en español "With the fertilizer bean, cowardly land becomes brave." In the developing world, agriculture is essential to sustainable and equitable development. The rural poor often earn their living on small farms, and this is no different in Central America. A persistent bane of the small farm is land degradation, especially on hillsides. In finding solutions to this problem, the farmers of northern Honduras are at the forefront. Having been excluded from the prime coastal lands by the elite classes and large agroindustries, these farmers have been developing ways of managing an aggressive vining legume called velvetbean (Mucuna spp.) and adapting it to the needs of maize production. The practice that they have developed over the past 20 years both enhances productivity and conserves the resource base — a rare combination in a hillside environment. This book provides a comprehensive evaluation of the use of velvetbean as a cover crop on the hillsides on northern Honduras. It sheds light on the opportunities and constraints presented by cover crops in the humid tropics and, perhaps most importantly, tells a story of successful farmer innovation. THE AUTHORS Daniel Buckles is Senior Program Officer at the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada. Bernard Triomphe is Research Associate at the Mexico City office of The Rockefeller Foundation. Gustavo Sain is Senior Scientist at the San José, Costa Rica, office of the International Centre for Maize and Wheat Improvement.
Preface Daniel Buckles and Bernard Triomphe 1998 Introduction 1998 Chapter 1 : Velvetbean: A New Plant with a History 1998 Chapter 2 : The Enabling Environment 1998 Chapter 3 : Land, Labour, and Livelihoods 1998 Chapter 4 : The Abonera System 1998 Chapter 5 : The Agroecology of the Abonera System 1998 Chapter 6 : The Economics of the Abonera System 1998 Chapter 7 : Factors Influencing Adoption of the Abonera System 1998 Conclusion 1998 Appendix I : Farm-survey Methods 1998 Appendix II : Visual Aids 1998 Appendix III : Materials and Methods Used To Collect the Agronomic Data 1998 Appendix IV : Model Specifications and Crop Budgets Underlying the Probabilistic Cost–Benefit Analysis 1998 Appendix V : Acronyms and Abbreviations 1998 References 1998 Résumé français 1998 |
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