1986-01-01 This book provides a neo-symbiotic integrated approach between agriculture, horticulture, forestry and biology, optimising the biomass production on one hand and conservation of ecosystem on the other. The manuscript is the first of its type for popularising agroforestry among students, teachers...
This presentation defines agroforestry, describes its potenial to allieve major land use problems and indicates what type of interactions can be expected between its various components. The basic concepts of Multipurpose Trees and Shrubs, multidisciplinarity and sustainability are explained and...
This presentation introduces the concept of livestock in agroforestry systems. When livestock is combined with treees, it is referred to as a silvopastoral system. Many such systems exist, such as traditional pasotoralist and extensive, as well as intensive agropastoral systems. The presentation...
1987-01-01 Agroforestry systems using nitrogen fixing woody perennials, such as Leucaena Leucocephala and Gliricidia sepium, planted in contour hedges on hillsides (or alleys on level ground), have proven to be as inexpensive and effective technology to control soil erosion, improve soil structure, and...
1984-01-01 An evaluation of the environmental aspects of fruit trees in agroforestry reveals that there can be significant advantages of soil improvment, microclimatic amelioration and environmental protection in fruit tree-based agroforestry systems.
1989-01-01 This book consolidates the descriptive results of a pantropical project called Agroforestry Systems Inventory (AFSI), undertaken by the International Council for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) from 1982 to 1987. Since agroforestry was a relatively new term when the project was initiated, the...