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Jamaica's hillside agriculture: an environmental endowment
(IICA, 09-1994)
This paper discusses how Jamaica's hillside agriculture conceptually interfaces development and sustainability issues. Additionally, this farming systems in a fragile ecosystem is an environmental endowmen. It is anticipated ...
Towards administrative excellence: consolidating efficiency and effectiveness
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 1989)
The third administrative retreat of the IICA Office in Jamaica focused on moving Towards administrative excellence: consolidating efficiency and effectiveness, thereby building upon the improvements projected by the first ...
Proceedings of the workshop: Network of Agricultural Information and Documentation Units in Jamaica
(IICA, 1999)
This document explains Jamaica has the capacity to improve in its provision of agricultural information services and products, however integration of the information units in the agricultural sector based on improved ...
IICA action strategy in Jamaica: 1990-1991
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 1991)
The document refers to the overall strategy for the 1990-1991 biennium: a) to assist the Government of Jamaica in bringing Jamaican back to its pre-Hurricane Gilbert level of development, while at the same time developing, ...
On-farm mango (Mangifera indica L.) cultivar trials for small hillside farmers between 230 and 300 meters elevation in the Parish of St. Catherine
(IICA, 12-1994)
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The objective of the document was to test the production of five commercial cultivars of mango, mangifera indica L., and to provide extension agents, local farmers and researchers with information on the ...
Regional Seminar on Agriculltural Planning and Policy Analysis in Latin America and the Caribbean -Antillean Zone- (Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago)
(IICA, 1979)
Este documento presenta:
-Programa de seminarios: proceso de planeación, áreas problemáticas y líneas de acción para mejorar la eficiencia de la planificación
-Sesión inaugural
Adoption of mini-sett technology in Jamaica
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 1995)
The introduction of a new agricultural practice or technological package and its adoption by small farmers in a complex process is presented. The most commonly used component was the use of small pavers and the most commonly ...
Farming systems research and extension approach
(IICA, 12-1994)
The document provides definitions of the Farming Systems and the role of the Farming System Research/Extension (FSR/E) in Jamaica.
Proceedings of the institutional context for on-farm adaptive research: Round table
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 1993)
The objective of the round-table was to discuss issues concerning the institutionalization of an on-farm research capacibility, drawing on the Hillside Agriculture Sub-Project's (HASP). Multidisciplinary, integrated farming ...
A roadbed for Jamaica's agricultural export development
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 12-1994)
The document explains that the agriculture needs to be reestructured in order to promote and diversify exports. It reccapitulates the status of Jamaica's agriculture and its exports. A strategy Tropical boutique agriculture ...