Agroforestry Systems

Author : Andrew M Gordon,Steven M Newman,Brent Coleman
Publisher : CABI
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781780644851

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Temperate Agroforestry Systems by Andrew M Gordon,Steven M Newman,Brent Coleman Pdf

Organic animal production has increased rapidly in recent years to keep up with the increasing consumer demand for organic meats. There are many guidelines and restrictions on what should go into the feedstuffs of organically farmed animals, from which difficulties arise when trying to ensure a well-balanced, nutritious diet without the use of any supplements. The book has been completely updated and revised to address how to formulate organic diets in situations where there is a declining supply of organic feed, as well as the feasibility of utilizing novel feedstuffs and their acceptability by consumers of organic meat products. Including the experiences of producers in relation to appropriate breeds and production systems for forage-based organic production, this book is an important read for researchers and students of organic food animal production, veterinary sciences and food; as well as food industry personnel and organic farmers.

Author : Scott X. Chang,Yi Cheng
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783039281640

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Agroforestry Systems by Scott X. Chang,Yi Cheng Pdf

Planting trees in the agricultural landscape, in the form of establishing agroforestry systems, has a significant role to play in potentially improving ecosystem services, such as increased biodiversity, reduced soil erosion, increased soil carbon storage, improved food security and nutrition, and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. While the role of trees in agroforestry systems in improving ecosystem services has been researched, studies in new systems/regions and new agroforestry system designs are still emerging. This Special Issue includes selected papers presented at the 4th World Congress on Agroforestry, Montpellier, France 20–22 May 2019, and other volunteer papers. The scope of articles includes all aspects of agroforestry systems.

Author : Sunil Puri
Publisher : New India Publishing
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 8189422626

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Agroforestry by Sunil Puri Pdf

Agroforestry is an age old practice throughout the world, but its recognition as a science is nearly three decades old. The scientific and systematic research on tree-crop interactions, in India, started in late 1970's and got major support and impetus with the establishment of All India Coordinated Research Project (AICRP) on Agroforestry in 1983 by ICAR. Today AICRP on Agroforestry has its network through out the country. Under AICRP and through the individual efforts of State Agricultural Universities, location specific agroforestry systems has been recommended to suit agro-climatic zones, landholdings and economic status of the region. Though extensive research had been done till date, but it is not available to scientific world, farming communities (who are the backbone of Indian rural development), students and inquisitive readers in one manuscript. This prompted the authors to club the information on agroforestry systems and practices prevailing in India in form of book. For the sake of convenience, agroforestry systems prevailing in India have been divided into four broad sections i) Agroforestry in India ii) Agroforestry system and practices in North, West and Central India iii) Agroforestry systems and practices in East, North-East and Southern India iv) Allied topics related to Agroforestry. Section one cover topics covering agroforestry experiences, research and extension efforts done in the last 25 years in India. Section two includes 13 chapters and section three covers 14 chapters wherein agroforestry research vis-à-vis agroclimatic zones of different states of India have been discussed. The last section comprising of 8 chapters includes topics related to role of agroforestry in soil conservation, women development; management of agroforestry; modeling; rehabilitation of mine spoils and breeding of agroforestry tree species.

Author : Louise E. Buck,James P. Lassoie,Erick C.M. Fernandes
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998-12-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 142004947X

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Agroforestry in Sustainable Agricultural Systems by Louise E. Buck,James P. Lassoie,Erick C.M. Fernandes Pdf

Agroforestry in Sustainable Agricultural Systems examines the environmental and social conditions that affect the roles and performance of trees in field- and forest-based agricultural production systems. Various types of ecological settings for agroforestry are analyzed within temperate and tropical regions. The roles of soil, water, light, nutrient and pest management in mixed, annual, woody perennial and livestock systems are discussed. Important new case studies from around the world offer innovative strategies that have been used successfully in raising forests and tree products on a sustainable basis for commercial harvesting and for providing other environmental services in land conservation and watershed management.

Author : B. Mohan Kumar,P. K. Ramachandran Nair
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9400716303

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Carbon Sequestration Potential of Agroforestry Systems by B. Mohan Kumar,P. K. Ramachandran Nair Pdf

Tree based production systems abound especially in the tropics. Despite the pervasiveness of such multipurpose “trees-outside-forest” resources, they have not attracted adequate attention in the development paradigms of many nation states. These multispecies production systems impact the ecosystem processes favourably. Yet, our understanding of the diversity attributes and carbon dynamics under agroforestry is not adequate. This book focuses on the role of multispecies production systems involving tree and crop species as a means for carbon sequestration and thereby reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. Sixteen chapters organized into three broad sections titled: Measurement and Estimation, Agrobiodiversity and Tree Management, and Policy and Socioeconomic Aspects represent a cross section of the opportunities and challenges in current research and emerging issues in harnessing carbon sequestration potential of agroforestry systems.

Author : Florencia Montagnini,Mark S Ashton
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999-12-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 1420049461

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The Silvicultural Basis For Agroforestry Systems by Florencia Montagnini,Mark S Ashton Pdf

During the Green Revolution in many developing countries, agroforestry systems tended to reflect modern agricultural systems by their intensive use of fertilizers, pesticides, and site modifications to fit the desired crop. Since the 1980's, agroforestry has learned from traditional indigenous systems to work more closely with the fertility of marginal lands through the use of less intensive cultivation and fallow periods. True to its title, this volume provides a silvicultural framework for thinking about the design and practice of agroforestry systems. Unlike many general agroforestry books, The Silvicultural Basis for Agroforestry Systems emphasizes research and thoughts from a forestry perspective rather than an agricultural one. Many of the examples used in this reference are based on the ecological theory of forests that concern the competition for resources of plant-plant and plant-animal mixtures. This guide also uses the knowledge gained about the temporal and spatial dynamic and productivity of forests as the basis for silvicultural applications in agroforestry systems. The Silvicultural Basis for Agroforestry Systems contains three parts:

Author : P. K. R. Nair
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1993-07-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0792321359

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An Introduction to Agroforestry by P. K. R. Nair Pdf

This college-level textbook summarizes the state of current knowledge in the rapidly expanding field of agroforestry. The book, organized into 25 chapters in six sections, reviews the developments in agroforestry during the past 15 years and describes the accomplishments in the application of biophysical (plant and soil related) and socioeconomic sciences to agroforestry. Although the major focus of the book is on the tropics, where the practice and potential of agroforestry are particularly promising, the developments in temperate zone agroforestry are also discussed. This text is recommended for students, teachers, and researchers in agroforestry, farming systems, and tropical land use.

Author : Antonio Rigueiro-Rodríguez,Jim McAdam,María Rosa Mosquera-Losada
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781402082726

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Agroforestry in Europe by Antonio Rigueiro-Rodríguez,Jim McAdam,María Rosa Mosquera-Losada Pdf

Agroforestry has come of age during the past three decades. The age-old practice of growing trees and crops and sometimes animals in interacting combinations – that has been ignored in the single-commodity-oriented agricultural and forestry development paradigms – has been brought into the realm of modern land-use. Today agroforestry is well on its way to becoming a specialized science at a level similar to those of crop science and forestry science. To most land-use experts, however, agroforestry has a tropical connotation. They consider agroforestry as something that can and can only be identified with the tropics. That is a wrong perception. While it is true that the tropics, compared to the temperate regions, have a wider array of agroforestry systems and hold greater promise for potential agroforestry interventions, it is also true that agroforestry has several opportunities in the temperate regions too. Indeed, the role of agroforestry is now recognized in Europe as exemplified by this book, North America, and elsewhere in the temperate zone. Current interest in ecosystem management in industrialized countries strongly suggests that there is a need to embrace and apply agroforestry principles to help mitigate the environmental problems caused or exacerbated by commercial agricultural and forestry production enterprises.

Author : Janaki R.R. Alavalapati,D. Evan Mercer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781402024139

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Valuing Agroforestry Systems by Janaki R.R. Alavalapati,D. Evan Mercer Pdf

The primary objective of this book is to offer practical means for strengthening the economics and policy dimension of the agroforestry discipline. This book, written by the leading experts in economics and agroforestry, encompasses case studies from Australia, China, Kenya, India, Indonesia, Malawi, Mexico, Micronesia, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The applied economic methodologies encompass a wide variety of case studies including enterprise/farm budget models through Faustmann models, Policy Analysis Matrix, production function approach, risk assessment models, dynamic programming, linear programming, meta-modeling, contingent valuation, attribute-based choice experiments, econometric modeling, and institutional economic analysis. It is our belief that these methodologies help agroforestry students and professionals conduct rigorous assessment of economic and policy aspects of agroforestry systems and to produce less biased and more credible information. Furthermore, the economic and policy issues explored in the book – profitability, environmental benefits, risk reduction, household constraints, rural development, and institutional arrangements – are central to further agroforestry adoption in both tropical and temperate regions. All of the chapters in this volume were subject to rigorous peer review by at least one other contributing author and one external reviewer. We would like to acknowledge the indispensable collaboration of those who provided careful external reviews: Ken Andrasko, Chris Andrew, Peter Boxall, Norman Breuer, Bill Hyde, Tom Holmes, Sherry Larkin, Jagannadharao Matta, Venkatrao Nagubadi, Roz Naylor, Thomas Randolph, Gerald Shively, Changyou Sun, Bo Jellesmark Thorsen, and Yaoqi Zhang. All reviews were coordinated by the book editors.

Author : Abhishek Raj,Manoj Kumar Jhariya,Dhiraj Kumar Yadav,Arnab Banerjee
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000008760

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Climate Change and Agroforestry Systems by Abhishek Raj,Manoj Kumar Jhariya,Dhiraj Kumar Yadav,Arnab Banerjee Pdf

This new volume addresses the burning issues of the impact of climate change, the alteration of environmental quality, and subsequent mitigation and adaptation strategies through various agroecosystem practices, primarily in agroforestry. The book discusses in depth the impact of climate change on forests and other agroecosystems. It presents new research on mitigation strategies, looking at carbon sequestration in agricultural soils, environmental greening, natural resource management, and livelihood security. It provides a thorough analysis of the potential of various modern, improved, and scientific farming practices, such as climate-smart agriculture and agroforestry systems for climate change mitigation and adaptation. The book also examines the invasion of major fungal diseases in forests and agricultural crops due to climatic fluctuations and goes on to look at water and waste management practices.

Author : Craig R. Elevitch,Kim M. Wilkinson
Publisher : PAR
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780970254405

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Agroforestry Guides for Pacific Islands by Craig R. Elevitch,Kim M. Wilkinson Pdf

Author : Ranjith P. Udawatta,Shibu Jose
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030800604

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Agroforestry and Ecosystem Services by Ranjith P. Udawatta,Shibu Jose Pdf

This book is a state-of-the-art compilation of the latest information on ecosystem services of agroforestry. The last two decades have seen a surge in literature on the ecosystem services of sustainable agriculture practices, including that of agroforestry; however, compilation and synthesis of such information from agroforestry have been limited. This book fills that void by bringing in a number of experts from around the world. In addition to presenting the multiple dimensions of ecosystem services provided by major agroforestry practices, the book also offers case studies from both tropical and temperate regions of the world. Information from this book can be used to design land management practices for climate change mitigation, ecosystem benefits, agricultural productivity and sustainability, and for survival and profitability of family farms and to conserve biodiversity. While synthesizing information of the biophysical aspects of ecosystem services, the book also outlines the socioeconomic and policy dimensions, including appropriate incentive models to enhance adoption of agroforestry so that society at large can enjoy these important benefits

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Agroforestry
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Multi - Strata Agroforestry Systems with Perennial Crops by Anonim Pdf

Author : P. K. R. Nair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Agroforestry
ISBN : MINN:31951D01097650R

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Classification of Agroforestry Systems by P. K. R. Nair Pdf

Author : Shibu Jose,Andrew M. Gordon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781402065729

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Toward Agroforestry Design by Shibu Jose,Andrew M. Gordon Pdf

This is an important reference for anyone interested in exploring or managing the physiological and ecological processes which underlie resource allocation and plant growth in agroforestry systems. The book highlights how recent developments in agroforestry research can contribute to understanding agroforestry system function, and discusses the potential application of agroforestry in addressing a range of land use challenges in both tropical and temperate regions of the world.