Save and grow
Subtitle: cassava : a guide to sustainable production intensification
By: [prepared by Reinhardt Howeler, NeBambi Lutaladio and Graeme Thomas]
Contributors: Lutaladio, NeBambi; Thomas, Graeme; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Rome
Language: eng
Number of pages: 129
ISBN-13: 9789251076415
Subjects: Cassava; Agricultural systems; Sustainable agriculture
Description: "This guide is the first on the practical application of FAO's "Save and Grow" model of agriculture to specific smallholder crops and farming systems. It comes as cassava production intensifies worldwide, and growers shift from traditional cultivation practices to monocropping, higher-yielding genotypes, and greater us of agrochemicals. Intensification carries great risks, including soils nutrient depletion and upsurges in pests and diseases. The guide shows how ecosystem-based "Save and Grow" approaches and practices can help tropical developing countries to avoid the risks of unsustainable intensification, while realizing cassava's potential for producing higher yields, alleviating hunger and rural poverty, and contributing to national economic development."--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-128).