Apr 6, 2018 | History - Indigenous Land Rights and Sustainable Agriculture, Indigenous Land Rights and Sustainable Agriculture, Uncategorized
What is Conservation Agriculture (CA)?
CA is a set of soil management practices that minimize the disruption of the soil’s structure, composition and natural biodiversity. Despite high variability in the types of crops grown and specific management regimes, all...
Jan 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
Earth Links is working towards the release of our “Open Source” database and website for small-holder rice farmers in 2018. With CAD files, free CAD software and easy to share PDFs of well used and tested equipment designs, we want to help facilitate the...
Nov 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
Sistema de Intensificatión del Cultivo del Arroz (SRI). Uphoff, Norman. 2016. ES_SRIFAQcompleto.Uphof.pdf A Spanish translation by the Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA) of Uphoff’s book, The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) –...
Jul 29, 2017 | Uncategorized
In favor of using the “brush cutter” weeder in its various forms for mechanization is that it is widely available and relatively inexpensive. It represents a first step towards mechanization for many small-holder farmers. It is faster than a manual weeder, and...
Feb 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
SRI is a set of sustainable rice farming technologies that can help small farmers to significantly increase their rice yields. It is a low-input technology, which can be flexibly applied based on the local factors and farm conditions. SRI methodology is based on four...
Feb 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
We are looking forward to Agritechnica 2017 and appreciate the invitation we received to speak at their Worldwide Forum 2015. We are grateful for all their support and the venue was excellent with great staff, presentation equipment, meeting and poster areas as well...
