The MOIST Group at Cornell University Management of Organic Inputs in Soils of the Tropics
Affiliated with the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development (CIIFAD)
Managed Fallows and Agroforestry Seminar Series Spring 1998
Sposored by MOIST and the Cornell Agroforestry Working Group (CAWG)
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January 30 - Terry Tucker -- Farmer experimentation in resource-limited environments:
Implications for agroforestry and the management of organic inputs
February 6 - Carlos Piedrasanta -- Indicators for measuring impact of fallow management practices
February 13 - Sean Neill -- The decline of cover cropping on the north coast of Honduras
February 20 - Sheryl Swink -- CIIFAD's Experience with Cover Crops and Farmer-Centered Research in the Dominican Republic: The first year
February 27 - Celia Harvey -- Remnant trees in pastures and their role in maintaining biodiversity
March 6 - Laura Meitzner -- Opportunities for improvement?: Local seed systems and selection in the Honduran highlands
March 13 - Chuck Staver -- Managing ground cover heterogeneity in coffee under trees: from replicated plots to farmer practice
March 27 - Louise Buck/Erika Styger -- Fallow management and agroforestry in Madagascar
April 3 - Ken Schlather -- The Role of Leguminous Trees in Managed Fallows
April 10 - the FallowMeisters --Constructing a template for the characterization of fallow management in tropical upland farming systems
April 17 - Luis Fregoso-Tirado -- Evaluation of sustainability of the agrosilvopastoral system of South Sinaloa, Mexico
April 24 - Geroge Abawi -- Impact of green manures and other sources of organic materials on root diseases and soil health
May 1 - Matthew Thornton - The Cornell-Zamorano Soil Health Initiative: An argument for participatory research