Dryland Farming Practices and Systems Agriculture

China is suffering from large scale and severe desertification. This article discusses the causes of the problem and examines possible solutions.

• International Arid Lands Consortium - Information on sustainable agriculture for arid and semi arid regions. practices and systems Includes maps, links, lists of projects.
• Dryland Farming Organisation in West Asia and North Africa - Provides information on a number of innovative ideas such as practices and systems the use of medic pastures, with case studies in development practices and systems and a small farmer centre.
• Rainwater Harvesting for Dry Land Agriculture - Describes a pilot project in Syria where it dryland farming was agriculture possible to identify areas suitable for water dryland farming harvesting, using agriculture satellite imagery and data sets on dryland farming topography, soil, vegetation, agriculture hydrology and meteorology.
• Irrigation of Date Palms with Saline Water and Effluent - Describes research in Israel into the stress caused dryland farming by using effluent water which is saline and dryland farming high in boron for the irrigation of date dryland farming palms.
• Meru Dryland Farming Project - Information on this project in Kenya which aims dryland farming to practices and systems help settlers in the semi-arid zone adopt dryland farming appropriate farming practices and systems methods and improve their livelihoods without dryland farming damaging the natural practices and systems resource base.
• Dryland Farming in Palestine - Online book describing the crops, practices and history of cultivation in the area, with statistics.[PDF]
• ICRISAT - International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics - Activities and details of an organisation working on dryland farming sustainable agriculture ecological farming in Africa and India.
• Agrodiversity as a Means of Sustaining Small Scale Dryland Farming Systems in Tanzania - Describes the benefits of using diverse and sustainable practices and systems farming methods in the region.[PDF]
• Transformation of Desertified Land in the Grazing-Farming Interlaced Belt of Northern China - China is suffering from large scale and severe dryland farming desertification. dryland farming This article discusses the causes of the dryland farming problem and dryland farming examines possible solutions.[PDF]
• Climate Friendly Farming: Dryland Component - Provides information on a project designed to establish agriculture field-scale experimental and demonstration sites for novel agroecosystems agriculture in dryland situations.
• Water Harvesting - On-line manual for the design and construction of dryland farming water dryland farming harvesting schemes for agricultural production.
• Direct Seeding: The Natural Solution for Revegetating Arid Lands - Information from the Eden Foundation on using perennials to provide a permanent vegetative cover into which annuals can be seeded.

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