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Resources Tagged: Agroforestry

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  1. Alley Cropping: A Stable Alternative to Shifting Cultivation

    As a biological low input production system, alley cropping should be a preferred production technique in developing countries where shortages of foreign exchange prohibits the importation or use of large quantities of inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides.
    Agricultural innov... Tropical Agriculture Agroforestry Cropping Systems Alley Cropping Intercropping

  2. Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn Working Group on Economic and Social indicators: Report on Methods for the ASB Best Bet Matrix

    This report is one of a series detailing results from the Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn Agriculture Research Programme which seeks to reconcile agricultural production and development with mitigation of the adverse local and global environmental effects of deforestation.
    Shifting cultivation Agroforestry Land Use Africa Slash-and-Burn

  3. Agrodok 016, Agroforestry

    1994-01-01 Farmers in large parts of the tropics have no tradition of aiming at maximum production per hectare; their main concern was to reduce the risk of crop failure. The principal reason is that - except in the main population centres - there were no convenient markets for food surpluses. The...
    Agroforestry Agroforestry Systems Agrodok

  4. Agroforestry in Haiti L'agrosylviculture en Ha{uml}iti

    Ce livret présente le résultat d'études sur les pratiques agricoles et agrosylvicoles par mes collegues et moi dans le cadre du Projet d'Amination Agrosylvicole de l'USAID. Leurs suggestions et questions ont permis de me rendre compte de la nécessité d'une référence visuelle de ces systémes....
    Agroforestry

  5. L'Agroforesterie Agrodok-series No. 16

    1994-01-01 Each year, Agromisa receives many enquiries on agroforestry from persons and institutions in the South. There is thus clearly a need for practical information on the subject. It is in this context that this Agrodok is presented. It describes the essential elements of agroforestry, from some...
    Agroforestry

  6. FM 1985 ILEIA Newsletter #3

    1985-07-19 The possible role of trees in farming systems of the tropics Exploitation of microbial systems of tree/plant species - India Low-input technology for managing oxisols and ultisols in tropical America Chemical fertilizer aid to Nepal Alley-cropping with leucaena Training courses ecological...
    Trees Alley Cropping Agroforestry Multi-storey Soil Management Nepal Ecological Indian-Agriculture Genetic Resources

  7. Agroforestry Series: Bananas Are More Than Bananas WS (August2022)

    Agroforestry Bananas Plantains Agroforestry Crops Asia

  8. Understanding Agroforestry Techniques

    1989-01-01 Agroforestry refers to the integration of trees and shrubs as essential elements of agricultural and other land use systems, with the idea of improving the fertility and productivity of the soil. In this concept, trees and shrubs can be deliberately managed (that is, established, tended,...
    Agroforestry Systems Agroforestry Sustainable Agrofo... VITA Downloads Live Fence Soil Conservation

  9. L'agroforesterie pour les productions animales

    Le présent essai est essentiellement une revue, une tentative de rassemblement des principales informations relatives au problème des relations entre productions animales et végétaux ligneux, considérés dans l'opique environnementale, si actuelle. On s'est efforcé de donner dans une forme...
    Agroforestry French language Animal Husbandry Forage Animal Production Downloads

  10. FM 1989 ILEIA Newsletter Vol 5 #1

    1989-04-19 Participatory analysis of the village agroecosystem Research on integrated and organic farming Traditional irrigation Water harvesting Agroforestry and integrated land use in Tanzania Guinea Pig Plant Protection
    Organic Farming Irrigation Guinea Pig Agroforestry Water Harvesting Agroecology Tanzania