1. Ressource principale 15/01/1989 An urgent challenge facing agricultural scientists working on upland food-crop production in many parts of the humid and subhumid tropics is the need to find viable, sustainable, and environmentally sound alternatives to the ancient shifting cultivation and bush-fallow, slash-and-bum cultivation...
  2. 01/01/1999 This lesson plan is designed for training of adult short term volunteer personnel for assignment in agroforestry self help programs in Malawi, Africa, who have bery little previous experience in the agroforestry disciplines, to become familiarized with agroforestry technologies, to be able to...
  3. Ressource principale 02/01/1998 The purpose of this volume is to present a detailed and in-depth look at the concepts, principles and practices that underlie agroforestry application. The focus is on how the individual parts (the theories and concepts) form the whole (the process of designing or understanding user-specific...
  4. 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...
  5. Sustainable Agriculture for Small-Scale Growers in Nicaragua The mission ofBioNicais to provide training in Nicaragua on how to reclaim depleted soil –“Grow the Soil”– so the soil can grow nutritionally balanced crops. Participants include: 1) agricultural technicians working with...
  6. 01/04/2010 Faidherbia albida exhibits reverse leaf phenology, losing its leaves at the beginning of the rainy season just as farmers want full sun for their crops. While most other species flower before or during the rains, the apple ring acacia flowers and leafs out at the end of the rainy season providing...
  7. 01/07/2004 Agroforestry: In its simplest definition (as quoted by ECHO's Technical Note "Agroforestry Principles"), "agroforestry is the production of trees and of non-tree crops or animals on the same piece of land." It should be viewed more as a creative process than as a set technique because it is...
  8. 18/10/2016 Le mûrier à papier est originaire de la Chine, du Japon, de la Corée, du Laos, du Cambodge, de la Thaïlande, de la Birmanie et de l'Assam (Inde), mais est largement cultivé ailleurs en Asie et dans le Pacifique. Il a également été naturalisé dans certaines parties du sud de l'Europe et des...
  9. 15/11/2016 Resilience refers to the capacity for ecological systems to persist and absorb changes. Climate-change resilience encompasses a dual function, to absorb shock as well as to self-renew to cope with new circumstances. Agroforestry offers both mitigation and adaptation strategies for enhancing...
  10. 16/01/2017 Cet article résume plusieurs des sessions plénières présentées à la conférence 2016 de ECHO en Floride. Si vous n’aviez pas pu assister à la conférence, ou si vous aimeriez revoir des communications, bon nombre d'entre elles peuvent être consultés surECHOcommunity. Parmi d’autres exposés de 2016...