Fodder
Strained milk
Biomass market in a flux
Be it crop residue or unintended green cover, biomass has several uses in India. It is being promoted for power generation. This is increasing fodder prices. Read this special report by Down To Earth on the biomass economy.
Re-assessing the fodder problem
Small-scale farmers depend largely on their animals and need to feed them well. Technology based innovations have been the mainstream solution to improve the fodder problem. But making farmers find relevant information and networks appears to be as much effective for innovation.
Food as a universal right
Olivier De Schutter is the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food. He aims to inform people at the highest political levels about the role that smallholders play in the world’s food production systems. He hopes that this will make decision-makers more sensitive to their needs and rights.
Smart investments in sustainable food production: Revisiting mixed crop-livestock systems
Farmers in mixed crop-livestock systems produce about half of the world’s food. In small holdings around the world, livestock are reared mostly on grass, browse, and nonfood biomass from maize, millet, rice, and sorghum crops and in their turn supply manure and traction for future crops.
Probable agricultural biodiversity heritage sites in India: The Brahmaputra Valley Region
The Brahmaputra Valley region has a unique landscape, with the Brahmaputra River and other rivulets running between the parallel hill ranges. The valley gets flooded during the monsoons, which deposit a large amount of silt and debris on the riverbeds.
Value of forest feed to livestock in lower Himalaya
Forests provide grasses and tree leaves for livestock. However, for hilly population, livestock rearing mechanism and food production systems are closely integrated in the forest ecosystem i.e. forest provide feed and fodder, while in return livestock supply draught power and manure as well as milk and meat as a source of cash income to the farmers.
Evaluation of dual purpose barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) as influenced by varieties, row spacing and time of cutting
Rain calendars: a tool for understanding changing rainfall patterns and effects on livelihoods
CARE and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) collaborated to pilot the use of an innovative tool for participatory analysis of changing rainfall patterns.
Jumbo threat
Villagers are fleeing to safety as elephants move into their domain in search of food and fodder----------
Kandhmal is back in the news - but this time around it is not communal riots. The district which caught inter-
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