Save and grow: a policymaker's guide to the sustainable intensification of smallholder crop production

Save and grow: a policymaker's guide to the sustainable intensification of smallholder crop production

978-92-5-106871-7

Rome (Italy) FAO 2011

Anglais

x, 102 p.

631 F68

IF000013438

This book presents a new paradigm: sustainable crop production intensification (SCPI), which produces more from the same area of land while conserving resources, reducing negative impacts on the environment and enhancing natural capital and the flow of ecosystem services.The best yields are achieved when nutrients come from a mix of mineral fertilizers and natural sources, such as manure and nitrogen-fixing crops and trees. Judicious use of mineral fertilizers saves money and ensures that nutrients reach the plant and do not pollute air, soil and waterways.

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