Over the past ten years common bean yields in parts of Africa have dropped by as much as 50 percent. This guide describes not one, but many solutions.
Published by: Research Into Use, Year: 2007, Pages: 8, File type: PDF (2,055 KB)
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This guide offers an overview of the impressive results that have been seen to date using on-farm seed priming, and its participatory approach.
Published by: Research Into Use, Year: 2007, Pages: 8, File type: PDF (778 KB)
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This guide outlines some simple low-risk options such as seed priming that could help these people grow more food and make more money, by planting pulse crops on fallow lands.
Published by: Research Into Use, Year: 2007, Pages: 8, File type: PDF (996 KB)
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This research shows how diatomaceous earths offer a safer alternative to chemical pesticides that small-scale farmers can use to reduce the damage that insects do to their stored grain.
Published by: Research Into Use, Year: 2007, Pages: 8, File type: PDF (1,092 KB)
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This research shows that the use of small amounts of pesticides and fungicides can help provide healthy seed yams.
Published by: Research Into Use, Year: 2007, Pages: 8, File type: PDF (1,922 KB)
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This guide explains how villages can forecast armyworm outbreaks using just a moth trap and rain gauge, so farmers can act quickly to spray their crops and prevent losses.
Published by: Research Into Use, Year: 2007, Pages: 8, File type: PDF (1,935 KB)
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This guide describes a simple method of baling straw and grass by hand that brings down these costs by 10–20%.
Published by: Research Into Use, Year: 2007, Pages: 8, File type: PDF (1,912 KB)
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Stomach worms are among the most common and damaging gastrointestinal parasites affecting goats and sheep in the tropics and sub-tropics. This guide explains how farmers can overcome this problem, by using simple techniques to assess their animals’ health and inexpensive, homemade feed blocks to supplement their diets.
Published by: Research Into Use, Year: 2007, Pages: 8, File type: PDF (1,610 KB)
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This guide explains co-management and provides arguments and information that can be used to persuade groups to start co-managing fisheries.
Published by: Research Into Use, Year: 2007, Pages: 8, File type: PDF (1,361 KB)
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Over three years in India, farmers tested 27 varieties of sorghum in their fields. They chose five, and three of these went on to be officially released.
Published by: Research Into Use, Year: 2007, Pages: 11, File type: PDF (803 KB)
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