Save and grow : cassava : a guide to sustainable production intensification / / [prepared by Reinhardt Howeler, NeBambi Lutaladio and Graeme Thomas]

• Autore: Howeler R. H
• Pubblicazione: Rome : , : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (142 p.)
• Disciplina: 633
• Soggetto topico: Cassava; Agricultural systems; Sustainable agriculture
• Altri autori: LutaladioNeBambi ThomasGraeme
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-128).
• Nota di contenuto: ""Foreword""; ""Contents""; ""Overview""; ""Cassava, a 21st century crop""; ""Farming systems""; ""Varieties and planting material""; ""Water management""; ""Crop nutrition""; ""Pests and diseases""; ""Harvest, post-harvest and value addition""; ""The way forward""; ""References""
• Sommario/riassunto: This guide is the first on the practical application of FAO's "Save and Grow" model of agriculture to specific smallholder crops and farming systems. It comes as cassava production intensifies worldwide, and growers shift from traditional cultivation practices to monocropping, higher-yielding genotypes, and greater use of agrochemicals. Intensification carries great risks, including soils nutrient depletion and upsurges in pests and diseases. The guide shows how ecosystem-based "Save and Grow" approaches and practices can help tropical developing countries to avoid the risks of unsustainable intensification, while realizing cassava's potential for producing higher yields, alleviating hunger and rural poverty, and contributing to national economic development.
• Titolo autorizzato: Save and grow
• ISBN: 92-5-107642-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910955916003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II