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Front Matter
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About this book
Twelve case studies are included. Eleven of them describe experiences from Latin America (4 cases), Africa (6 cases) and Asia (1 case) and the twelfth case reports on the development of a GMCC systems database. Two concluding chapters, `Learning from the Case Studies' and `Future Perspectives', build upon the cases.
The systems described are diverse. Some systems have been spontaneously adopted by farmers, while others have been introduced to the farmers through diffusion efforts. Some of the cases reviewed describe small, localized efforts while others report on large-scale, well-known ones, such as the combination of GMCCs and conservation tillage in Santa Catarina, Brazil, the maize-Mucuna system in northern Honduras, and the improved fallow systems in Eastern Zambia. Most experiences include both development and research aspects and to the extent possible the cases integrate these two. Discussion of the strengths and shortcomings of the systems and efforts is frank, and the goal is to learn from these experiences to benefit future efforts.
It is expected that both researchers and development practitioners and students of tropical farming systems and soil management will find this volume of case studies useful.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Green Manure/Cover Crop Systems of Smallholder Farmers
Book Subtitle: Experiences from Tropical and Subtropical Regions
Editors: Marjatta Eilittä, Joseph Mureithi, Rolf Derpsch
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2051-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2045-2Published: 07 July 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6580-3Published: 01 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-2051-3Published: 08 May 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 361
Topics: Agriculture, Soil Science & Conservation, Forestry