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Free, PDF version of the book may be found, from the publisher, at the following: (http://foodgrainsbank.ca/uploads/Restoring%20the%20Soil.pdf) http://foodgrainsbank.ca/uploads/Rest... Preface As world population numbers tick ever higher, ensuring that food production keeps pace is one of the biggest challenges facing humanity. Large-scale agriculture will provide part of the solution, but smallholder farmers (farmers in developing countries who often have limited land and capital, are poorly linked to markets and are vulnerable to risks) will also play a vital role in feeding the next generations. Millions of smallholder farmers around the world, however, are facing a serious soil fertility crisis, and many of these families also suffer from food insecurity. Soil infertility and erosion losses in many regions of the world are standing in the way of increased food production and improved livelihoods for many smallholder farmers. Maintaining, and in many cases recovering soil fertility, has become a major challenge facing agricultural professionals and farmers. Green manure/cover crops are proving to be an effective, locally appropriate and low-external-input solution to this crisis

Author

Roland Bunch; Canadian Foodgrains Bank

Publisher

Canadian Foodgrains Bank

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780968854648