Managing Woodlots
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This helpful, richly illustrated Q&A guide overflows with pruning advice for trees, shrubs, topiary, climbers, fruit trees, and hedges. Discover why certain plants need pruning (for example, to limit growth or encourage flowering or fruiting shoots). Troubleshooting tips.
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Ressource principale 19/01/1988 Agroforestry in Dryland Africa is specifically designed to be used by agroforestry field workers in subhumid and semi-arid regions of the continent. This includes researchers working with grassroots organizations, community extension and development workers and development specialists in...
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Ressource principale 01/01/1980 The problems of firewood shortages and the promise of firewood plantations were described extensively in the first volume. No less than one-and-a-half billion people in developing countries derive at least 90 percent of their energy requirements from wood and charcoal. Another billion people meet...
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Ressource principale 01/11/1987 This 505 page book is an exceptionally exhaustive source of information on tropical and subtropical fruits. It is a well-illustrated and very readable, practical guide for those interested in growing tropical and subtropical fruits either for the home garden or commercially. The fruits are...
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Ressource principale 01/06/1989 Formerly separate publications, the text and dictionary are combined into a one-volume complete guide to Shigo’s album of facts, photos, philosophies, and terminology regarding trees, their problems, and their proper care. On the basis that trees support more integrated groups of living things...
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Ressource principale 01/01/2002 Tropical Tree Seed Manual is a one-volume reference manual for students, technicians, and scientists that provides comprehensive, internationally compiled data about tropical trees. The emphasis is on species of the Americas; however, a number of tropical tree species from other countries are...
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Ressource principale01/01/1993 280 pp. : ill. 2 copies La première partie traite du rapport qui existe entre les arbres et les gens, et les menaces que les facteurs sociaux, économiques et politiques posent aux arbres. La seconde partie se concentre sur l'agriculture multiétagée, cette méthode de culture économiquement saine...
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Ressource principale 10/12/2007 It has been recognized that an important factor in improving the viability of rural livelihoods in developing countries is the promotion of sustainable agriculture. As opposed to relying solely on cash crops, this can be more easily achieved through the domestication of various indigenous fruit...
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Ressource principale 20/01/2001 Whether in a small backyard or a larger farm or forest, trees are vital to the web of life. Protecting and planting trees can restore wildlife habitat, heal degraded land, conserve soil, protect watersheds, diversify farm or garden products, beautify landscapes, and enhance the economic and...
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Ressource principale 20/10/2005 Volume Two: Design & Practice Edible Forest Gardens is a groundbreaking two-volume work that spells out and explores the key concepts of forest ecology and applies them to the needs of natural gardeners in temperate climates. Volume I lays out the vision of the forest garden and explains the...
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Ressource principale 30/08/2005 Volume One: Vision & Theory Edible Forest Gardens is a groundbreaking two-volume work that spells out and explores the key concepts of forest ecology and applies them to the needs of natural gardeners in temperate climates. Volume I lays out the vision of the forest garden and explains the...
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Ressource principale 01/01/1989 The aim of this guide is to present results of scientific research on pruning in a way that can be understood easily by all people who care about trees. In this guide I discuss pruning for the desires of man, but also for the health of the trees and their associates. I have tried to make this...
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Coppice-with-standards is a two-story woodland management system where among cut trees or "coppice" some trees are left to grow as larger size timber, called "standards". This traditional system supports sustainable production of timber and nontimber forest products, while enhancing ecosystem...
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Abstract, Ambio, 2021 In biodiversity hotspots, there is often tension between human needs and conservation, exacerbated when protected areas prevent access to natural resources. Forest-dependent people may compensate for exclusion by managing unprotected forests or cultivating planted woodlots....
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Managers of natural forests in the tropics need to draw on the expertise of a multitude of disciplines, including the traditional fields of forestry and ecology as well as the equally important disciplines of environmental engineering, geography, sociology, and economics. Whereas there was a time...
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To find out if community-based forest management is effective, we read 30 studies that best represent the available evidence. (See the interactive infographic below.) Overall, community-based forest management does not appear to make a forest’s condition worse — and may even make it better. The...
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Abstract, Ambio, 2021 In biodiversity hotspots, there is often tension between human needs and conservation, exacerbated when protected areas prevent access to natural resources. Forest-dependent people may compensate for exclusion by managing unprotected forests or cultivating planted woodlots....
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AccessAgriculture Training Video La regénération naturelle assistée (RNA) par les producteurs a aidé à reverdir cinq million d'hectares de terre au Niger après trois décennies de destruction. C'est une voie effective de reintroduction de parc boisé pour aider à améliorer la gestion des cultures...
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AccessAgriculture Training Video Les arbres produisent du bois d'oeuvre et du bois de feu, mais aussi du fruit, des gousses, des feuilles et des tisanes aux populations et aux animaux d'elevage. Des especes aident a ameliorer la fertilité des sols et a reduire les températures locales. Le systeme...
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01/04/2010 Jean Remy Azor owns and manages his own “ti fore” (little forest) in Haiti. He started it in 1984 and has not had to replant it since. He tells of his experiences with it.
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