Let Farmers Judge
Experiences in assessing the sustainability of agriculture
A collection of reports from researchers and fieldworkers on the effectiveness of innovations in smallholder farming systems. Emphasis is given to farmer participation and assessment and the use of new technologies (Published in the ILEIA Readings in Sustainable Agriculture series).
Published: 1992
Pages: 216
eBook: 9781780445304
Paperback: 9781853391491
| Preface v | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Acknowledgements vii | |||
| Part I: Measuring Sustainability 1 | |||
| Larry Harrington: 2 | |||
| Measuring sustainability: Issues and alternatives | |||
| Part II: What Criteria to Use? 17 | |||
| J.C. Zadoks: 19 | |||
| The costs of change in plant protection | |||
| Douglas Horton: 29 | |||
| Lessons from the Mantaro Valley Project, Peru | |||
| Christine Pahlman: 43 | |||
| Soil erosion? That's not how we see the problem! | |||
| Allan Low: 49 | |||
| On-farm research and household economics | |||
| Part III: Aspects of Economic Assessment 63 | |||
| Floris van der Pol: 65 | |||
| Soil mining: An unseen contributor to farm income in southern Mali | |||
| Michael Stocking and Nick Abel: 77 | |||
| Labour costs: A critical element in soil conservation | |||
| Charles Francis: 87 | |||
| Sustainability issues with intercrops | |||
| Pierre Morion: 97 | |||
| Crop yields and the small-scale family farm economy: | |||
| An example from the central Andes | |||
| Anne Floquet: 102 | |||
| Farmers' assessment of ecological cropping techniques | |||
| Part IV: Comparing Farming Systems 113 | |||
| Pedro Sanchez and Jose Benites: 115 | |||
| Low-input cropping for acid soils of the humid tropics | |||
| SusannaHecht: 129 | |||
| Indigenous soil management in the Latin American tropics: | |||
| Neglected knowledge of native people | |||
| Hilario Padilla: 143 | |||
| High and stable crop yields: The Bontoc rice terraces | |||
| J. Palmer: 151 | |||
| The sloping agricultural land technology experience | |||
| Boudewijn van Elzakker, Rob Witte and Jan-Diek van Mansvelt: 165 | |||
| Benefits of diversity: Organic coffee growing in Mexico | |||
| Erik van der Werf: 175 | |||
| Can ecological agriculture meet the Indian farmer's needs? | |||
| M.P. Bimbao, A.V. Cruz andI.R. Smith: 187 | |||
| An economic assessment of rice-fish culture in the Philippines | |||
| Castillano dela Cruz, Clive Lightfoot and R.C. Sevilleja: 195 | |||
| A user perspective on rice-fish culture in the Philippines | |||
| Further Reading 205 | |||
| Checklist of Criteria for Assessing Agricultural Technology 206 |
Wim Hiemstra
Wim Hiemstra is International Programme Coordinator at ETC-COMPAS, the Netherlands.
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