Natural Pesticides - Chilli pepper

The insecticidal properties of chilli pepper are highest in the ripe fruit especially in the skin and seed. Chillis act as a stomach poison, antifeedant and repellent to a number of pests.

Armer les villes contre la faim

IDRC

Armer les villes contre la faim

Seeding Solutions Volume 1

The Crucible II Group

Seeding Solutions: Volume 1. Policy options for genetic resources. People, Plants, and Patents revisited

Biological and Cultural Diversity

Gordon Prain, Sam Fujisaka, D Michael Warren

Much recent 'scientific' agricultural research has failed to build upon the valuable experiences and lessons learnt from farmers, in combating problems faced in agriculture. Biological and Cultural Diversity presents, for the first time, cases of indigenous experimentation as well as the benefits in...

Farmers' Seed Production

Conny Almekinders, Niels Louwaars

This handbook covers a whole range of issues relating to local seed supply systems, including participatory plant breeding, and both technical and practical information on seed production and variety maintenance. It suggests new approaches and methods to support on-farm seed production by small-scal...

Fertile Ground

Fiona Hinchcliffe, John Thompson, Jules Pretty, Irene Guijt, Parmesh Shah

Fertile Ground addresses presents the findings of the first formal study and in-depth research into the impacts of participatory watershed management in a wider range of agroecological and socioeconomic settings in Africa, Asia, Australia and Latin America. The Sustainable Agricultural and Rural Liv...

Managing Mobility in African Rangelands

Maryam Niamir-Fuller

This publication shows how land tenure laws, decentralization policies, institutional capacity building, common property management, conflict resolution and participatory development can be made more responsive to the needs of those practising transhumance today, or pastoralists, for ecologically an...

Meeting the Challenges of Animal Traction

Paul Starkey

This new resource book provides a wealth of ideas and experiences concerning animal traction in many countries. This publication has been developed from the ATNESA workshop held in Kenya on 'meeting the challenges of animal traction' and draws together key papers and contributions from professionals...

Modern Coconut Management

J.G. Ohler

Modern Coconut Management is aimed at guiding those who work with small-scale farmers and farmer groups through the complex area of coconut management. It will also be of value to the many processors and others whose livelihoods depend on coconuts. The emphasis is on the need for training and educat...

Organic Cotton

Dorothy Myers, Sue Stolton

Commercial organic cotton production is a new area of activity, and research and analysis is still at an early stage, but what written material exists is presented here with material commissioned specifically for this book. It is organized according to the stages in the 'cotton chain', from farmer t...