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Conservation Agriculture Research Updates - June 2024
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Brwon, B., Sharma, A., Karki, E. & Chaudhary, A. 2023. Journal of South Asian Development. 18 (2) 193-220.
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This interesting paper looks at what happens when smallholder farmers adopt labour and money-saving practices such as no-till to the livelihoods of these farmers. They used qualitative photovoice methodology on 25 South Asian households to address this question. They identified activities related to agricultural and livelihood diversification that were linked to resilience, satisfaction and better livelihood outcomes. They suggest that cereal system intensification is synergistic rather than antagonistic to crop and livelihood diversification. They conclude that this participatory human focused method that looks at people rather then plots helps identify a diversity of livelihood strategies.
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This paper from NE Himalayas, where low yielding maize-fallow is the main cropping system on the sloping hilly areas is a daunting task for increasing farm productivity, nutritional security and economic viability. The paper explains the results of a field experiment over 3 years under organic management that looks at CA vs CT and 6 diversification options. Results show CA had higher productivity than CT. Crop diversification also had higher system productivity, net returns, net energy returns than the local cropping system. They conclude that conservation agriculture improved soil health and performed better than conventional agriculture in maize-based intensive cropping systems. Crop diversification with maize-sweet corn- pea or broad bean can potentially increase calorie and protein consumption and farm profitability.