land use
AGROVOC URI: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_4182
Desarrollo rural en la Amazonia Peruana
Descripción de las enfermedades de la yuca [conjunto audiotutorial]
This audiotutorial unit (cassette, printed script, 93 color slides, Study guide, self-evaluation test), prepared by the Communications Support Unit at CIAT, is available for use with a manually or automatically synchronized slide projector/cassette tape recorder. Each unit is available from the Distribution Office at a cost of US$ 50; photocopies of the study guide alone can be obtained from the Cassava Information Center. One of the main factors limiting to cassava production is disease.
Descripción y daños de las plagas que atacan el fríjol [conjunto audiotutorial]
This audiotutorial unit (cassette, printed script, 80 color slides, study guide, self-evaluation test), prepared by the Communications Support Unit at CIAT, is available for use with a manually or automatically synchronized slide projector/cassette tape recorder. Each unitis available from the Distribution Office at a cost of US$50; photocopies of the study guide alone can be obtained from the Bean Information Center. Pests are one of the main factors limiting bean production. Of the 200 species of insects and mites, however, only a few cause losses of economic importance.
Determinants of adoption of improved forage technologies in crop-livestock mixed systems: Evidence from the highlands of Ethiopia
Inadequate feed and nutrition are major constraints to livestock production in sub-Saharan Africa. National and international research agencies, including the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), have developed several feed production and utilisation technologies. However, adoption of these technologies has so far been low. Identification of the major socio-economic and policy factors influencing the adoption of improved feed technologies is required to help design policy and institutional interventions to improve adoption.
Development plans for Turipana: a major research and training center for the lowland hot tropics
Determination of eligible lands for A/R CDM project activities and of priority Districts for project development support in Indonesia
Based on the best available remote sensing data from before 1990, the total area of formally eligible lands in Indonesia for the aff orestation and reforestation (A/R) Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) activities under the Kyoto protocol is about 46 M ha.