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This technology involves the cultivation of crops around the house, including pomelos, lemons and other supplementary crops, with solely the application of cattle and chicken manure as fertilizer, whilst abstaining from the use of chemicals. The purpose of this technology is to obtain various products, generate a household income especially ...

• Compiler: Be Gechkim
• 04/24/2017 3:14 a.m.

Apiculture (beekeeping) is a traditional practice providing a high number of non-timber forest products.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 11/16/2010 9:22 a.m.

Alliance farming refers to collaboration between crop farmers and pastoralists, who agree to use the same land and related resources (crop residues as fodder for pastoralists; dung as fertilizer for crop farmers) for their mutual benefit.

• Compiler: Blasius Azuhnwi
• 01/11/2018 12:48 p.m.

Application of Tithonia diversifolia (Mexican sunflower) as green manure

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 10/08/2010 3:02 p.m.

Un verger, planté avec différentes espèces fruitières et fixatrices d'azote alternés dans les rang, est conduit sans pésticides, grace a une diversité d'espèces végétales (plantes aromatiques, mellifères) qui de plus attirent une diversité animale.

• Compiler: Stefan Graf
• 05/15/2017 11:55 a.m.

Infrastructure of stone, mortar and concrete, built along the waterline, with the aim of retaining sediment dragged by water runoff.

• Compiler: Jacques Tavares
• 09/25/2013 11:23 a.m.

Platforms created in series along the slopes, separated by punch of stone, vertical, reduced the length of slopes and facilitating the infiltration of water and increasing production

• Compiler: Jacques Tavares
• 09/25/2013 11:27 a.m.

Small walls of stone built on hillsides with slopes generally greater than 40%, second-level curves, which ensures a good infiltration and contributes to reducing the erosive power of water runoff.

• Compiler: Jacques Tavares
• 09/25/2013 11:24 a.m.

It is a technique which uses the structure of a cross-slope barrier of Aloe vera to combat soil erosion by decreasing surface wash and increasing infiltration.

• Compiler: Jacques Tavares
• 10/08/2010 4:21 p.m.

Afforestation is one of the key technologies to address the fragility of ecosystems: it provides better protection against erosion and makes better use of rainfall in order to maintain the sustainability of agricultural systems.

• Compiler: Jacques Tavares
• 08/05/2011 11:45 a.m.