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        • Chapter 7 - Weeds
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        • Chapter 10 - Human nutrition
        • Chapter 11 - Animals
        • Chapter 12 - Crop breeding
        • Chapter 13 - Disaster Relief
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        • Chapter 5 - Soil Health
        • Chapter 6 - Water
        • Chapter 7 - Weeds
        • Chapter 8 - Pests and Disease
        • Chapter 9 - Post Harvest
        • Chapter 10 - Human Nutrition
        • Chapter 11 - Animals
        • Chapter 12 - Crop Breeding
        • Chapter 13 - Disaster Relief
    • South Asia (English version >
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        • Chapter 1 - Scientific Methods
        • Chapter 2 - Land preparation and Sowing
        • Chapter 3 - Crop and Tree intensification
        • Chapter 4 - Terrace Agriculture
        • Chapter 5 - Soil Health
        • Chapter 6 - Water
        • Chapter 7 - Weeds
        • Chapter 8 - Pest and Disease
        • Chapter 9 - Post Harvest
        • Chapter 10- Human Nutrition
        • Chapter 11 - Animals
        • Chapter 12 - Crop Breeding
        • Chapter 13 - Disaster Relief
  • East/Southeast Asia
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        • Chapter 1 - Scientific Methods
        • Chapter 2 - Land preparation and Sowing
        • Chapter 3 - Crop and Tree Intensification
        • Chapter 4 - Terrace Agriculture
        • Chapter 5 - Soil Health
        • Chapter 6 - Water
        • Chapter 7 - Weeds
        • Chapter 8 - Pests and Disease
        • Chapter 9 - Post Harvest
        • Chapter 10 - Human Nutrition
        • Chapter 11 - Animals
        • Chapter 12 - Crop Breeding
        • Chapter 13 - Disaster Relief
    • East/Southeast Asia (English version) >
      • Chapters
      • Chapters with Individual lessons >
        • Chapter 1 - Scientific Methods
        • Chapter 2 - Land preparation and Sowing
        • Chapter 3 - Crop and Tree Intensification
        • Chapter 4 - Terrace Agriculture
        • Chapter 5 - Soil Health
        • Chapter 6 - Water
        • Chapter 7 - Weeds
        • Chapter 8 - Pests and Disease
        • Chapter 9 - Post Harvest
        • Chapter 10 - Human Nutrition
        • Chapter 11- Animals
        • Chapter 12 - Crop Breeding
        • Chapter 13 - Disaster Relief
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        • Chapter 1 - Scientific Methods
        • Chapter 2 - Land preparation and Sowing
        • Chapter 3 - Crop and Tree Intensification
        • Chapter 4 - Terrace Agriculture
        • Chapter 5 - Soil Health
        • Chapter 6 - Water
        • Chapter 7 - Weeds
        • Chapter 8 - Pests and Disease
        • Chapter 9 - Post Harvest
        • Chapter 10 - Human Nutrition
        • Chapter 11 - Animals
        • Chapter 12 - Crop Breeding
        • Chapter 13 - Disaster Relief
    • Sub-Saharan Africa/Caribbean (English version) >
      • Chapters
      • Chapters with Individual lessons >
        • Chapter 1 - Scientific Methods
        • Chapter 2 - Land preparation and Sowing
        • Chapter 3 - Crop and Tree Intensification
        • Chapter 4 - Terrace Agriculture
        • Chapter 5 - Soil Health
        • Chapter 6 - Water
        • Chapter 7 - Weeds
        • Chapter 8 - Pest and Disease
        • Chapter 9 - Post Harvest
        • Chapter 10 - Human Nutrition
        • Chapter 11 - Animals
        • Chapter 12 - Crop Breeding
        • Chapter 13 - Disaster Relief
  • Latin America
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      • Chapters with Individual lessons >
        • Chapter 1 - Scientific Methods
        • Chapter 2 - Land preparation and Sowing
        • Chapter 3 - Crop and Tree Intensification
        • Chapter 4 - Terrace Agriculture
        • Chapter 5 - Soil Health
        • Chapter 6 - Water
        • Chapter 7 - Weeds
        • Chapter 8 - Pests and Disease
        • Chapter 9 - Post Harvest
        • Chapter 10 - Human Nutrition
        • Chapter 11 - Animals
        • Chapter 12 - Crop Breeding
        • Chapter 13 - Disaster Relief
    • Latin America (English version) >
      • Chapters
      • Chapters with Individual lessons >
        • Chapter 1 - Scientific Method
        • Chapter 2 - Land preparation and Sowing
        • Chapter 3 - Crop and Tree Intensification
        • Chapter 4 - Terrace Agriculture
        • Chapter 5 - Soil Health
        • Chapter 6 - Water
        • Chapter 7 - Weeds
        • Chapter 8 - Pests and Disease
        • Chapter 9 - Post Harvest
        • Chapter 10 - Human Nutrition
        • Chapter 11 - Animals
        • Chapter 12 - Crop Breeding
        • Chapter 13 - Disaster Relief
  • North Africa and Middle East
    • North Africa and Middle East (Pictures only) >
      • Chapters
      • Chapters with Individual lessons >
        • Chapter 1 - Scientific Methods
        • Chapter 2 - Land preparation and Sowing
        • Chapter 3 - Crop and Tree Intensification
        • Chapter 4 - Soil Health
        • Chapter 5 - Water
        • Chapter 6 - Weeds
        • Chapter 7 - Pests and Disease
        • Chapter 8 - Post Harvest
        • Chapter 9 - Human Nurtition
        • Chapter 10 - Animals
        • Chapter 11 - Disaster Relief
    • North Africa and Middle East (English version) >
      • Chapters
      • Chapters with Individual lessons >
        • Chapter 1 - Scientific Methods
        • Chapter 2 - Land preparation and Sowing
        • Chapter 3 - Crop and Tree Intensification
        • Chapter 4 - Soil Health
        • Chapter 5 - Water
        • Chapter 6 - Weeds
        • Chapter 7 - Pests and Disease
        • Chapter 8 - Post Harvest
        • Chapter 9 - Human Nutrition
        • Chapter 10 - Animals
        • Chapter 11 - Disaster Relief

Acknowledgements 

This initiative is part of the Sustainable Agriculture Kits for Nepal (SAKNepal) project. We thank Rachana Devkota (University of Guelph), Roshan Pudasaini (LI-BIRD, Nepal) and especially women farmers associated with LI-BIRD for conducting and enabling extensive participatory editing of this picture book.  We thank Kamal Khadka (University of Guelph) for translating English captions into Nepali captions.  We thank Anuja Shrestha (University of Guelph) for editorial assistance and for creating the SAKBooks website. We thank Dr. Tejendra Chapagain (University of Guelph) for assistance with the lessons and for Nepali translation editing. We thank Myla Manser (University of Guelph) for technical assistance during editing and Paige Kennedy (University of Guelph) for assisting with text captions. We thank Dr. Kirit Patel (Canadian Mennonite University) for ultimately helping to make this initiative possible. This book was made possible because of generous funding from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC, Ottawa) and Global Affairs Canada as part of the CIFSRF program.

​Dr. Raizada dedicates this book to the memory of his father, Mahesh N. Raizada, an Indian scientist who went to Nigeria in the 1960s to teach a young nation – a man who treated all peoples, rich or poor, with equal respect and dignity. 
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  • Home
  • Creators
  • Copyright, citation, usage
  • Text Translation Sharing
  • Acknowledgements
  • South Asia
    • South Asia (Pictures only) >
      • Chapters
      • Chapters with Individual lessons (South Asian) >
        • Chapter 1 - Scientific Methods (South Asian pictures)
        • Chapter 2 - Land preparation and Sowing
        • Chapter 3 - Crop and Tree Intensification
        • Chapter 4 - Terrace Agriculture
        • Chapter 5 - Soil Health
        • Chapter 6 - Water
        • Chapter 7 - Weeds
        • Chapter 8 - Pests and Diseases
        • Chapter 9 - Post harvest
        • Chapter 10 - Human nutrition
        • Chapter 11 - Animals
        • Chapter 12 - Crop breeding
        • Chapter 13 - Disaster Relief
    • South Asia (Nepali version) >
      • Chapters
      • Chapters with Individual lessons >
        • Chapter 1 - Scientific Methods
        • Chapter 2 - Land preparation and Sowing
        • Chapter 3 - Crop and Tree Intensification
        • Chapter 4 - Terrace Agriculture
        • Chapter 5 - Soil Health
        • Chapter 6 - Water
        • Chapter 7 - Weeds
        • Chapter 8 - Pests and Disease
        • Chapter 9 - Post Harvest
        • Chapter 10 - Human Nutrition
        • Chapter 11 - Animals
        • Chapter 12 - Crop Breeding
        • Chapter 13 - Disaster Relief
    • South Asia (English version >
      • Chapters
      • Chapters with Individual lessons >
        • Chapter 1 - Scientific Methods
        • Chapter 2 - Land preparation and Sowing
        • Chapter 3 - Crop and Tree intensification
        • Chapter 4 - Terrace Agriculture
        • Chapter 5 - Soil Health
        • Chapter 6 - Water
        • Chapter 7 - Weeds
        • Chapter 8 - Pest and Disease
        • Chapter 9 - Post Harvest
        • Chapter 10- Human Nutrition
        • Chapter 11 - Animals
        • Chapter 12 - Crop Breeding
        • Chapter 13 - Disaster Relief
  • East/Southeast Asia
    • East/Southeast Asia (Pictures only) >
      • Chapters
      • Chapters with Individual lessons >
        • Chapter 1 - Scientific Methods
        • Chapter 2 - Land preparation and Sowing
        • Chapter 3 - Crop and Tree Intensification
        • Chapter 4 - Terrace Agriculture
        • Chapter 5 - Soil Health
        • Chapter 6 - Water
        • Chapter 7 - Weeds
        • Chapter 8 - Pests and Disease
        • Chapter 9 - Post Harvest
        • Chapter 10 - Human Nutrition
        • Chapter 11 - Animals
        • Chapter 12 - Crop Breeding
        • Chapter 13 - Disaster Relief
    • East/Southeast Asia (English version) >
      • Chapters
      • Chapters with Individual lessons >
        • Chapter 1 - Scientific Methods
        • Chapter 2 - Land preparation and Sowing
        • Chapter 3 - Crop and Tree Intensification
        • Chapter 4 - Terrace Agriculture
        • Chapter 5 - Soil Health
        • Chapter 6 - Water
        • Chapter 7 - Weeds
        • Chapter 8 - Pests and Disease
        • Chapter 9 - Post Harvest
        • Chapter 10 - Human Nutrition
        • Chapter 11- Animals
        • Chapter 12 - Crop Breeding
        • Chapter 13 - Disaster Relief
  • Sub-Saharan Arica/Caribbean
    • Sub-Saharan Africa/Caribbean (Pictures only) >
      • Chapters
      • Chapters with Individual lessons >
        • Chapter 1 - Scientific Methods
        • Chapter 2 - Land preparation and Sowing
        • Chapter 3 - Crop and Tree Intensification
        • Chapter 4 - Terrace Agriculture
        • Chapter 5 - Soil Health
        • Chapter 6 - Water
        • Chapter 7 - Weeds
        • Chapter 8 - Pests and Disease
        • Chapter 9 - Post Harvest
        • Chapter 10 - Human Nutrition
        • Chapter 11 - Animals
        • Chapter 12 - Crop Breeding
        • Chapter 13 - Disaster Relief
    • Sub-Saharan Africa/Caribbean (English version) >
      • Chapters
      • Chapters with Individual lessons >
        • Chapter 1 - Scientific Methods
        • Chapter 2 - Land preparation and Sowing
        • Chapter 3 - Crop and Tree Intensification
        • Chapter 4 - Terrace Agriculture
        • Chapter 5 - Soil Health
        • Chapter 6 - Water
        • Chapter 7 - Weeds
        • Chapter 8 - Pest and Disease
        • Chapter 9 - Post Harvest
        • Chapter 10 - Human Nutrition
        • Chapter 11 - Animals
        • Chapter 12 - Crop Breeding
        • Chapter 13 - Disaster Relief
  • Latin America
    • Latin America (Pictures only) >
      • Chapters
      • Chapters with Individual lessons >
        • Chapter 1 - Scientific Methods
        • Chapter 2 - Land preparation and Sowing
        • Chapter 3 - Crop and Tree Intensification
        • Chapter 4 - Terrace Agriculture
        • Chapter 5 - Soil Health
        • Chapter 6 - Water
        • Chapter 7 - Weeds
        • Chapter 8 - Pests and Disease
        • Chapter 9 - Post Harvest
        • Chapter 10 - Human Nutrition
        • Chapter 11 - Animals
        • Chapter 12 - Crop Breeding
        • Chapter 13 - Disaster Relief
    • Latin America (English version) >
      • Chapters
      • Chapters with Individual lessons >
        • Chapter 1 - Scientific Method
        • Chapter 2 - Land preparation and Sowing
        • Chapter 3 - Crop and Tree Intensification
        • Chapter 4 - Terrace Agriculture
        • Chapter 5 - Soil Health
        • Chapter 6 - Water
        • Chapter 7 - Weeds
        • Chapter 8 - Pests and Disease
        • Chapter 9 - Post Harvest
        • Chapter 10 - Human Nutrition
        • Chapter 11 - Animals
        • Chapter 12 - Crop Breeding
        • Chapter 13 - Disaster Relief
  • North Africa and Middle East
    • North Africa and Middle East (Pictures only) >
      • Chapters
      • Chapters with Individual lessons >
        • Chapter 1 - Scientific Methods
        • Chapter 2 - Land preparation and Sowing
        • Chapter 3 - Crop and Tree Intensification
        • Chapter 4 - Soil Health
        • Chapter 5 - Water
        • Chapter 6 - Weeds
        • Chapter 7 - Pests and Disease
        • Chapter 8 - Post Harvest
        • Chapter 9 - Human Nurtition
        • Chapter 10 - Animals
        • Chapter 11 - Disaster Relief
    • North Africa and Middle East (English version) >
      • Chapters
      • Chapters with Individual lessons >
        • Chapter 1 - Scientific Methods
        • Chapter 2 - Land preparation and Sowing
        • Chapter 3 - Crop and Tree Intensification
        • Chapter 4 - Soil Health
        • Chapter 5 - Water
        • Chapter 6 - Weeds
        • Chapter 7 - Pests and Disease
        • Chapter 8 - Post Harvest
        • Chapter 9 - Human Nutrition
        • Chapter 10 - Animals
        • Chapter 11 - Disaster Relief