Intensified Systems of Farming in the Tropics and Subtropics (World Bank Discussion Paper)

by J. A. Nicholas Wallis

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World Bank Discussion Paper No. 364.This technical paper is a review of eight intensified systems of land use on unirrigated farms in developing countries. The study proposes three complementary sets of conditions necessary for farming systems to be sustainable in the long run: public sector policies and investments; private farmers, their families, and institutions; and scientific principles, natural resource endowments, and ecological systems.The farming systems include dairy development show more in Uruguay, fallow land in Turkey, associated cropping in Colombia and Nigeria, the opening of the Cerrados region of Brazil, the development of tillage and soybean farms in India, and perennial crop development in Kenya and Malaysia. Each case brings out the interactions among sound scientific and practical knowledge, market factors, social contexts, and public policies and investments. show less