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In many communities in the world, the population lives on agriculture. Smallholder agriculture covers 75% of agricultural production, most of which are rain-fed agriculture. This number indicates that the impact of population explosion in rural areas is prompting communities to adopt unsustainable farming practices, like burning of tropical rain forests to grow crops, planting on steep slopes, entering fragile marginal ecosystems, and overgrazing and over cropping. This volume estimates that one-sixth of the globe's land area (nearly 2 billion hectares) has been degraded due to overgrazing and negative farming practices. Water supply for agricultural purposes is becoming scarcer, and there is almost no land reserve that can be used to expand the agricultural base. Come 2025, nearly 3 billion people in 48 countries shall be affected by severe water shortages throughout the year or some months. The volume recommends suitable and site-specific technologies to reverse poverty and food insecurity issues. Some of the chapters mentioned include: chapter 1: philosophies of restoration agriculture on small farms, chapter 2: soil food web and chapter 3: conservation farming among others. Both scientific and indigenous knowledge available to the community should effectively facilitate this process, and farmers must actively participate in designing, implementation and evaluation of these technologies.
Contents
Chapter 1 Philosophies of Restoration Agriculture on Small Farms
Chapter 2 Soil Food Web
Chapter 3 Conservation Farming
Chapter 4 Organic Annual Cropping and Crop Rotations as a Method to Restore Agriculture
Chapter 5 Composting in Agriculture
Chapter 6 Increasing Biodiversity in Agriculture
Chapter 7 Improving the Water Cycle in Agriculture
Chapter 8 Increasing Plant's Resilience To Climate Change
Chapter 9 Home Garden as a Method to Mitigate the Adverse Effect of Global Food Shocks and Food Price Volatilities
Chapter 10 Alternative For Networks As A Way To Restore Agriculture
