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Ecological input-costs in agricultural production in northwest Kampuchea
Type: Journal Article
On-farm trials were used to evaluate the agro-economic feasibility of growing a second rice crop in Northwest Kampuchea in the dry season, and to calculate the costs and benefits of ecological inputs in agricultural ...
Training resource book for participatory experimental design: report of a Research Design Workshop on Participatory Design of On-farm Experiments of the ICAR/IRRI Collaborative Rice Research Project
Type: Book
This book carries on from previous volumes on agro-ecosystem mapping and farming systems diagnosis (see TN2 and TN3).
Flow modelling with ECOPATH: providing insights on the ecological state of agroecosystems
Type: Book Chapter
This paper summarizes the major findings in modelling and analysing agroecosystems using ECOPATH.
Recherche et formation pour le developpement des systemes de production integree agriculture-elevage-pisciculture en zone tropicale
Type: Working Paper
There is a vast potential for Asia's numerous and needy small-scale farmers to enjoy the benefits of integration of aquaculture into farming systems. This publication attempts to create a framework for an interdisciplinary ...
Wall-to-wall fieldwork: some guidelines for secondary data collection in developing countries
Type: Journal Article
A discussion is presented on the usefulness of secondary data in research in the field of agriculture, considering implications for the fisheries and aquaculture sectors. Four categories of secondary data are examined -- ...
Farmer participatory procedures for managing and monitoring sustainable farming systems
Type: Journal Article
This paper aims to devise a farmer participatory method that not only improves farmer management of natural resources, but also monitors the impact of improvements. This assessment is made in terms of: economic efficiency, ...
Modeling and analyzing the agroecological performance of farms with ECOPATH
Type: Report
Intensive and integrated resource management, where field crops, vegetables, trees, livestock and fish production are combined through efficient reuse of wastes, residues, by-products and external inputs, offers a potential ...
Problems in estimating growth parameters of the wahoo Acanthocybium solandri (Scombridae) using the ELEFAN 1 program
Type: Journal Article
Plots of Rn, the goodness-of-fit index of teh ELEFAN I program versus K can be used jointly with fixed values of the other growth parameters to identify "optimum values" of K. This is here illustrated using data on wahoo ...
Tracking nutrient flows in a multi-enterprise farming systems with a mass-balance model (ECOPATH)
Type: Book Chapter
Whether grown for sale or for on-farm consumption, vegetables and other crops are often managed as stand-alone, monoculture enterprises. Integrated farming can help improve the nutrient output-input balance sheet and ...