Trajectories of innovation in conservation agriculture at Lake Alaotra in Madagascar
The Lake Alaotra area is a Madagascan rice bowl with many soil and climatic constraints. Through sustainable agricultural development, research bodies have disseminated conservation agriculture (CA) techniques with the BV-Lac development project from 2003 to 2013. As defined by the FAO in 2008, CA has three principles: (1) minimum soil disturbance, (2) soil protection by vegetation cover and (3) crop rotation and plant combination, which requires a double paradigm shift in terms of cropping patterns and strategies. A survey conducted in 2013/2014 showed that during the project, farmers adapted CA techniques to their own constraints in a long learning process leading to a continuum of practices between conventional agriculture and CA through recombination of knowledge.
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| Format: | book_section biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
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| Subjects: | F08 - Systèmes et modes de culture, P01 - Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières, agroécologie, système de culture, biodiversité, lac, rotation culturale, conservation des ressources, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_92381, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1971, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_33949, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_4160, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6662, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6523, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_4510, |
| Online Access: | http://agritrop.cirad.fr/588360/ http://agritrop.cirad.fr/588360/1/ID588360.pdf |
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