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Sites:
  • Buffer Strips: Common Sense Conservation - Discusses the uses and benefits of having small areas or strips of land in permanent vegetation, designed to intercept pollutants, prevent soil erosion and manage other environmental concerns.
  • Farming Systems and Poverty - Maps of farming systems, resources, soils, crops and livestock in six world regions. Also analyses of the trends, emerging constraints and priority development actions.
  • FARmresearch - Links to research projects about implementing site-specific management systems on farms.
  • Fatal Harvest - Book featuring essays on industrial agriculture and its effects on farmers and consumers.
  • Living With Nature - Information on how an arid area of land is made productive, using inter-cropping and organic farming practices.
  • Manitoba's Management Plus Program - Provides farmers and industry with crop information and freeware, from the Manitoba Crop Insurance database.
  • Manure Management - Cornell University projects and information on manure management, to reduce energy costs, increase profitability, and improve environmental impacts.
  • Mucuna Bracteata - Cover Crop - Describes the establishment of the legume Mucuna bracteata under Oil Palm in Malaysia.
  • Suite 101- Farming - Collection of articles with facts, information, and techniques for those starting on small scale farming.

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