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DocumentCultivating lotus on raised beds in flood prone areas, Viet Nam 2012
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No results found.Cultivating lotus in raised beds is a local adaptation practice in flood prone areas of the Quang Tri province of north central Vietnam. Communities traditionally collected lotus seeds from plants grown in common water bodies and sold them in markets. However, there was no initiative to further develop, promote and disseminate this practice. The practice of raised beds has been recognized as suitable for broader replication in flood prone areas only recently, and communities have thus started to engage in cultivating lotus also in low lying flood prone areas. The objective of lotus cultivation on raised beds is to ensure production at a time when cultivation would normally be impossible, providing employment opportunities and household income also during flooding periods. -
No Thumbnail AvailableDocumentWood energy 1981This is the first of two special issues of Unasylva devoted exclusively to wood energy. As the magazine goes to press, this subject is also being prepared for examination at Nairobi, in August, by the United Nations Conference on New and Renewable Sources of Energy. Four of the six articles in this issue are adapted from papers written for this meeting. The Conference was requested by the UN General Assembly. It will bring together scientists, economists and policy advisers from governments and international agencies, and will focus attention on energy problems of the developing countries. The title of the Conference strongly suggests that it is looking for long-term practical solutions.
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Book (stand-alone)Local technical knowledge and natural resource management in the humid tropics 1991
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In 1990, within its Forestry for Community Development Programme, the FAO Forestry Department published Community Forestry Note 4, "Herders' Decision-Making in Natural Resources Management in Arid and Semi-Arid Africa". This was the first step in filling an information gap on what knowledge rural people have developed in the management of trees and forests in relation to their production systems. Dr. Katherine Warner, an anthropologist with a special focus on shifting cultivation systems, f ollows with this Community Forestry Note 8. "Shifting Cultivators" highlights the local technical knowledge applied by swidden/fallow farmers when making resource management decisions. This is an especially timely volume as it brings together data and provides valuable analysis of a practice that is currently in ill repute with forestry planners and environmentalists. Dr. Warner does not claim that shifting cultivators can continue with their systems, especially in the face of competing land and tree uses for their fallow areas. She does, however, point out valuable lessons that can be learned from the long-term swidden/fallow cultivators about sustainable use of tropical forests. She provides suggestions for the evolution of systems based on what these women and men farmers already know and use in providing a livelihood for their families in difficult tropical environments.
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