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Handbook for designing & managing Agroforestry mixing fruits & vegetables

{Tool} Handbook for designing & managing Agroforestry mixing fruits & vegetables. [Concevoir et conduire un verger-maraîcher. Guide pratique à l'usage des porteurs de projet.] Creator(s): WARLOP, FRANCOIS and Fourrié, Laetitia. Issuing Organisation(s): GRAB - Groupe de Recherche en Agriculture Biologique, ITAB - Institute for Organic Agriculture and Food. (2017)

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Summary

This guide is intended for all market gardeners or project leaders wishing to develop a vegetable production system on their farm.
associated with a complementary fruit production, secondary but
without creating a new specialized workshop. The 40-page handbook intends to point out the main decisive aspects to have in mind when creating and designing a diversified agroforestry system: which marketing channels, which competencies, which working capacity and organization. Farmers experiences and feedbacks provide an additional value to this practical guide.


Summary translation

Ce guide s'adresse à tous les maraîchers ou porteurs de projet souhaitant développer un système de production de légumes sur leur exploitation.
associé à une production fruitière complémentaire, secondaire mais
sans créer un nouvel atelier spécialisé. Ce guide de 40 pages se propose de mettre en évidence les principaux aspects décisifs à prendre en compte lors de la création et de la conception d'un système agroforestier diversifié : quels circuits de commercialisation, quelles compétences, quelle capacité de travail et d'organisation. Les expériences et les commentaires des agriculteurs apportent une valeur ajoutée à ce guide pratique.

EPrint Type:Practice tool
Teaser:Principles, technical elements and critical points for designing and managing your mixed agroforestry system.
What problem does the tool address?:The demand for support in the creation of "market garden orchards (agroforestry associating fruit trees and vegetables). This is the result of a combination of factors: agricultural relocation, explosion of short circuits, production using organic methods or without phytosanitary inputs, limited land available... This kind of support requires sufficient technical data from the field, but it is very difficult to propose standard references for all market orchards. for all market garden orchards, given the great diversity of these diversity of these innovative systems.
What solution does the tool offer?:Principles, technical elements and critical points for designing and managing your plot. The elements developed in this guide are based on the experience of professionals committed to these innovative systems.
Country:France
Type of Practice Tool:Books & reports
Theme:Pest and disease control, Crop specific
Keywords:agroecology, biodiversity, crop diversity, crop management, fruit farming, horticulture, integrated pest management, low-input system, nature conservation, organic farming, perennial crop, permaculture, weed management
Agrovoc keywords:
Language
Value
URI
English
agroforestry
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_207
English
intercropping
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3910
English
mixed cropping
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_4871
Subjects: Crop husbandry > Crop combinations and interactions
Crop husbandry > Production systems > Vegetables
Environmental aspects > Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Crop husbandry > Production systems > Fruit and berries
Environmental aspects > Landscape and recreation
Research affiliation: France > GRAB - Groupe de Recherche en Agriculture biologique
France > INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
France > ITAB - Institut Technique en Agriculture Biologique
France > Other organizations France
Related Links:https://organic-farmknowledge.org/tool/32135, http://www.grab.fr/le-projet-smart-9497
Project ID:OFK
Deposited By: WARLOP, François
ID Code:32135
Deposited On:13 Feb 2018 09:27
Last Modified:19 Sep 2023 12:40
Document Language:French/Francais
Status:Published

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