Alley farming: have resource-poor farmers benefited?
1996
Carter, J. (ODA, London (UK))
The author reports that over the past two decades, there has been much scientific interest in alley cropping, intended as a sustainable, intensive system that would radically improve the long-term prospects of resource-poor farmers. Although impossible to estimate precisely, the total global expenditure on alley farming research, development and promotion runs to tens of millions of US dollars. It is now widely recognized that the technology has far less potential than originally anticipated; major limitations having emerged in both its technical and its socioeconomic characteristics.
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