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Eco-efficient Crop & Livestock Production for Nicaraguan Farmers
2015-03-05 22:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: For Roberto Pineda, a smallholder farmer in the Somotillo municipality of Nicaragua, his traditional practice after each harvest was to cut down and burn all crop residues on his land, a practice known as "slash-and-burn" agriculture. A widespread practice on these sub-humid hillsides of Central America, it was nonetheless causing many negative environmental implications, including poor soil quality, erosion, nutrient leaching, and the loss of ecosystem diversity. Slash-and-burn allows farmers...
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