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Revision as of 10:13, 21 October 2009

How to Fight Soil Erosion?

  1. How to Fight Sandy Soil Erosion
  2. How to Fight Soil Erosion by Planting Vetiver Grass
  3. How to Fight Soil Erosion
  4. How to Protect Cultures from the Wind
  5. How to Restore Soil
  6. How to Stop Gullies on Eroded Slopes
  7. How to Re-vegetalize Land Using Seed Balls

How to Build a Small Scale Irrigation System

  1. How to Install Drip Technologies
  2. Micro Irrigation
  3. How to Use the Porous Clay Pots and Pipes System

How to Build a Low-cost Greenhouse

  1. How to Build a Low-cost Poly-house

How to Fertilize with Compost and Organic Matter

  1. How to Compost Manure
  2. How to Grow Earth Worms
  3. How to Improve Soil Quality with Earth Worms
  4. How to Improve Soil Quality with Mycorrhizal Fungi Inoculation
  5. How to Improve Soil Quality with Volcanic Ashes and Stones
  6. How to Make and use a Worm Farm
  7. How to Prepare Natural Fertilizer
  8. How to Start Composting
  9. What to Compost

Weeds and Pest Control

  1. How to Use Chillies as a Natural Pesticide
  2. How to Use Garlic as a Natural Pesticide
  3. How to Use Neem as a Natural Pesticide
  4. How to Control Termite without Chemicals
  5. How to Control Weeds and Pathogens with Soil Solarization
  6. How to Protect Plantations Against Elephants

Different Agriculture Methods, urban agriculture

  1. How to Make a Donkey Plough
  2. How to Grow a Banana Circle
  3. How to Grow Potatoes in Tyres
  4. How to Grow Sweet Potatoes (Yams) in a Mound
  5. How to Build a No-Dig Garden
  6. How to Choose from the Different Culture Methods
  7. How to Start Permaculture
  8. How to Start No-Till Farming
  9. How to Start Polyculture
  10. How to Start Crop Rotation
  11. How to Start Culture in Zai Holes
  12. How to Start a Vegetable Garden
  13. How to Start a Container Garden
  14. How to Use Plastic Bottles in your Garden
  15. How to Start Grow Boxes
  16. How to Improve the Crop Variety and Food Security

Special Cultures and More Ideas

  1. Special Cultures for Arid Regions
  2. Special Cultures for Mountainous Regions
  3. Special Cultures for Tropical Regions
  4. How to Grow Allanblackia trees
  5. How to Grow Argan
  6. How to Grow Banana
  7. How to Grow Edible Mushrooms
  8. How to Grow Fruits and Nuts in the Desert
  9. How to Grow Marula
  10. How to Grow Moringa Trees
  11. How to Grow Morongo
  12. How to Grow Neem Trees
  13. How to Grow Oil Crops
  14. How to Grow Peanuts
  15. How to Grow Shea Trees (Karité, Nku, Bambuk Butter tree)
  16. How to Grow White Sapota


Cattle, Pork, Goats, Rabbits, Poultry Keeping

  1. Simple Hygien Measures for Animal and Human Health

Farm buildings

Need ideas for buildings and equipment? This site offers scanned plans for farm building and equipment developed over many years by engineers at Land Grant universities and the USDA; view the blueprints online for free (if a plan has more than one sheet you may just get to see one sheet) http://cerc.colostate.edu/Blueprints/blueprints.html

Beekeeping and Micro-breeding

  1. Beekeeping Principles

Fishery and Aquaculture

  1. How to Build an Artificial Reef
  2. How to Build Reef Balls
  3. Gene Pool Protected Fishing


Agricultural Economy

Farmer Association and Cooperatives

  1. How to Start a Small Cooperative
  2. How to Start a Micro-lending Organization
  3. How to Start a Community Seed Bank
  4. How to Collect the Knowledge of the Community
  5. How to Create a Product Distribution Network