MARC details
| 000 -LEADER |
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| fixed length control field |
03225nam a22002897a 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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| control field |
G91373 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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| control field |
MX-TxCIM |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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| control field |
20240517185738.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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| fixed length control field |
240517s2009 ii ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
MX-TxCIM |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| 090 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED LC-TYPE CALL NUMBER (OCLC); LOCAL CALL NUMBER (RLIN) |
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| Classification number (OCLC) (R) ; Classification number, CALL (RLIN) (NR) |
CIS-5478 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Wall, P.C. |
| Field link and sequence number |
INT0255 |
| 9 (RLIN) |
3735 |
| Miscellaneous information |
Sustainable Intensification Program |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Strategies to overcome the competition for crop residues in Southern Africa : |
| Remainder of title |
some light at the end of the tunnel |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New Delhi (India) : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
4th World Congress on Conservation Agriculture, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2009. |
| 340 ## - PHYSICAL MEDIUM |
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| Material base and configuration |
Computer File Printed |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Most small-holder farmers in southern Africa rely on maize as their staple food and manage mixed crop/livestock systems where maize is the major crop and maize residues provide a vital source of livestock feed during the dry season when grazing areas are limited. Conservation agriculture on the other hand relies on ground cover with crop residues to achieve its potential to increase crop yields under rainfed conditions and increase soil health and system sustainability. The competition between the soil and animals for the scarce crop residues thus has become a major point for discussion and often disagreement. However, most analyses of total farm productivity during a transition to conservation agriculture from tillage-based agriculture assume that all of the farm will be converted to the new system in a relatively short period of time. This strategy, while conceptually simple, also results in the maximum competition for residues, and as a result tends to force a decision against CA before its promise of increased yields and system sustainability can be achieved. If the farm is converted gradually to CA, then competition is less, the farmer can learn to manage the new system properly under his/her conditions, and soil degradation on the farm can gradually be reverted while crop productivity increases. The reduced risk of crop failure with CA also allows diversification of crops on the farm, and may include the production of forage crops with markedly better nutritional quality than cereal crop residues. Using examples from farmer managed plots in southern Africa the paper will explore the effects on total productivity. However, there are other difficulties with surface residue retention, principally communal grazing rights after harvest and the prevalence of wild fires or bush fires. Both of these need to be taken into account and while the farmer can control aspects of the solution, overcoming the problems will involve important policy decisions at the community and district levels. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Language note |
Text in English |
| 591 ## - CATALOGING NOTES |
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| Affiliation |
0903 |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| 9 (RLIN) |
1064 |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Crop residues |
| Source of heading or term |
AGROVOC |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Conservation agriculture |
| 9 (RLIN) |
2619 |
| Source of heading or term |
AGROVOC |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Smallholders |
| 9 (RLIN) |
1763 |
| Source of heading or term |
AGROVOC |
| 651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Source of heading or term |
AGROVOC |
| 9 (RLIN) |
1954 |
| Geographic name |
Southern Africa |
| 711 2# - ADDED ENTRY--MEETING NAME |
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| 9 (RLIN) |
28220 |
| Meeting name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
World Congress on Conservation Agriculture |
| Number of part/section/meeting |
(4th : |
| Date of meeting |
4-7 February 2009 : |
| Location of meeting |
New Delhi, India) |
| 773 0# - HOST ITEM ENTRY |
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| Place, publisher, and date of publication |
New Delhi (India) : 4th World Congress on Conservation Agriculture, 2009. |
| Related parts |
p. 65-70 |
| Title |
World Congress on Conservation Agriculture; 4: Innovations for improving efficiency, equity and environment |
| Record control number |
G91363 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Conference paper |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Suppress in OPAC |
No |