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Save and grow : cassava : a guide to sustainable production intensification / [prepared by Reinhardt Howeler, NeBambi Lutaladio and Graeme Thomas].
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Howeler, R. H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cassava.
- Agricultural systems.
- Sustainable agriculture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (142 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Rome : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- ""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""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-128).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 92-5-107642-1
- OCLC:
- 923763024
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