strategy
Upgrading local soil productivity
Synonyms:
Increasing soil productivityMaintaining soil productivity under population pressure
Claim:
Tested methods of farming can be adapted to the situations of small farmers and increase productivity in both the short and long run. These include diversification of land use, organic and natural farming approaches, soil development, conservation, wasteland reclamation and irrigation. Subsistence farmers resigned to their meagre lot over the years can be awakened to these methods through demonstrations, education, access to credit, new and simple technologies, servicing of these technologies, and horizontal and vertical linkages. Once aware of the possibilities, the farmers can decide. Broader:
Stewarding fertile soil formationMaximizing agricultural land yieldIncreasing productivity of material resources Facilitates:
Increasing food crop productivity Facilitated by:
Improving soil managementAdvancing integrated rural developmentImproving access of rural poor to creditConducting practical agricultural trainingProviding vertical linkages between rural producers and the economyProviding vertical linkages between rural producers and the economy Problems:
Soil degradationSubjects:
Fundamental Sciences → MechanicsGeology → Soil
Society → Local
Amenities → Maintenance
Research, Standards → Quality unification
Sociology → Population
Economics → Productivity
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
