| Autor: |
Warren McNabb, Rosangela Maria Simeão, Christine Voisey, Cesar Silvino Pinares Patiño, Peter Christie, Weidong Kong, Baodong Chen, Richard Johnson, Paulo César De Faccio Carvalho |
| Rok vydání: |
2005 |
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| Zdroj: |
Grassland: a global resource |
| Popis: |
1. Examples of successful adoption of forage legumes are reported from all continents, where they delivered profi tability and often provided multipurpose benefi ts to farmers. 2. Factors vital to successful adoption were: meeting the needs of farmers; building relevant partnerships; understanding the socioeconomic context and skills of farmers; partici patory involvement with rural communities; and long-term involvement of champions. 3. Organisation of seed supply, achieving scale-up and forming partnerships to implement adoption are key features. 4. Legumes remain an important but under-exploited resource for tropical farming systems. The alternative to legumes will be greater and more costly use of N-fertilisers and purchased protein concentrates. 5. The R&D organisations will need to provide longterm support and greater investment for legume technologies to deliver benefi ts to farmers. Support will be needed for training and education programs to overcome declining availability of forage legume expertise and lack of awareness of oppor tunity for use of tropical forage legumes. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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