Tropical Agroforestry

Author : Alain Atangana,Damase Khasa,Scott Chang,Ann Degrande
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789400777231

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Tropical Agroforestry by Alain Atangana,Damase Khasa,Scott Chang,Ann Degrande Pdf

Agroforestry is recognized as a sustainable land-use management in the tropics, as it provides environmental-friendly ecosystems; it also provides people with their every day need for food and cash. Since the recognition of agroforestry as a science, curricula have been developed for agroforestry programs for undergraduate and graduate trainings in Universities. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop and make available educational material. This textbook strives to provide up-to-date information on tropical agroforestry to serve as educational material in the tropical context. The authoritative textbook of Nair (1993) on agroforestry was published 18 years ago, and before the advent of tree domestication, an important agroforestry practice today. In addition, many other research activities, such as carbon sequestration and integrated pest management, have been included in the agroforestry agenda. This textbook is intended for agroforestry students, teachers, and practitioners.

Author : Peter Huxley
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999-03-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0632040475

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Tropical Agroforestry by Peter Huxley Pdf

Agroforestry is the cultivation, by farmers, of trees or other woody plants with crops or pasture. Its scientific study is attracting great interest and increasing funding because of its potential to produce sustainable agricultural systems and agroforestry is now included in most university and college courses covering land use subjects. Tropical Agroforestry is the first book that provides an analytical account of the principles, as well as the practices, of agroforestry within the context of the needs of land occupiers and, in so doing, describes the various specialist aspects that are now emerging as part of this discipline. The main objective throughout the book is to present, in a readable way, the underlying functional basis of woody/non-woody plant mixtures and to give a balanced account of how agroforestry can contribute to sustainable production from land. Understanding the biology of multipurpose trees is a key to this.

Author : Götz Schroth,Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca,Celia A. Harvey,Claude Gascon,Heraldo L. Vasconcelos,Anne-Marie N. Izac
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781597267441

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Agroforestry and Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Landscapes by Götz Schroth,Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca,Celia A. Harvey,Claude Gascon,Heraldo L. Vasconcelos,Anne-Marie N. Izac Pdf

Agroforestry -- the practice of integrating trees and other large woody perennials on farms and throughout the agricultural landscape -- is increasingly recognized as a useful and promising strategy that diversifies production for greater social, economic, and environmental benefits. Agroforestry and BiodiversityConservation in Tropical Landscapes brings together 46 scientists and practitioners from 13 countries with decades of field experience in tropical regions to explore how agroforestry practices can help promote biodiversity conservation in human-dominated landscapes, to synthesize the current state of knowledge in the field, and to identify areas where further research is needed. Agroforestry and Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Landscapes is the first comprehensive synthesis of the role of agroforestry systems in conserving biodiversity in tropical landscapes, and contains in-depth review chapters of most agroforestry systems, with examples from many different countries. It is a valuable source of information for scientists, researchers, professors, and students in the fields of conservation biology, resource management, tropical ecology, rural development, agroforestry, and agroecology.

Author : P. K. Ramachandran Nair,C.R. Latt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789401590082

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Directions in Tropical Agroforestry Research by P. K. Ramachandran Nair,C.R. Latt Pdf

Large areas of the warm, humid tropics in Southeast Asia, the Pacific, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa are hilly or mountainous. Jackson and Scherr (1995) estimate that these tropical hillside areas are inhabited by 500 million people, or one-tenth of the current world population, many of whom practice subsistence agriculture. The region most affected is Asia which has the lowest area of arable land per capita. Aside from limited areas of irrigated terraces, most of the sloping land, which constitutes 60% to 90% of the land resources in many Southeast Asian countries, has been by-passed in the economic development of the region (Maglinao and Hashim, 1993). Poverty in these areas is often high, in contrast to the relative wealth of irri gated rice farms in lowland areas that benefited from the green revolution. Rapid population growth in some countries is also exacerbating the problems of hillside areas. Increasingly, people are migrating from high-potential lowland areas where land is scarce to more remote hillside areas. Such migra tion, together with inherent high population growth, is forcing a transforma tion in land use from subsistence to permanent agriculture on fragile slopes, and is creating a new suite of social, economic, and environmental problems (Garrity, 1993; Maglinao and Hashim, 1993).

Author : P. K. R. Nair
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : B.M. Kumar,P.K.R. Nair
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781402049484

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Tropical Homegardens by B.M. Kumar,P.K.R. Nair Pdf

‘Homegardens’ are integrated tree–crop–animal production systems, often established on small parcels of land surrounding homesteads, and primarily found in tropical environments. This multi-authored volume contains peer-reviewed chapters from the world’s leading researchers and professionals in this topic. It summarizes the current state of knowledge on homegarden systems, with a view to using this knowledge as a basis for improving both homegardens and other similar multistrata agroforestry systems.

Author : John Lynam,Lindsey Norgrove,Tabea Allen,Ata Davatgar,Rolando Cerda,Luis Orozco-Aguilar,Norvin Sepúlveda,Jenny Ordoñez,Geovana Carreño-Rocabado,Freddy Amores,Willan Caicedo,Samuel Oblitas,Eduardo Somarriba,Arlene López-Sampson
Publisher : Burleigh Dodds Science: Instan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1801462828

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Instant Insights: Tropical Agroforestry by John Lynam,Lindsey Norgrove,Tabea Allen,Ata Davatgar,Rolando Cerda,Luis Orozco-Aguilar,Norvin Sepúlveda,Jenny Ordoñez,Geovana Carreño-Rocabado,Freddy Amores,Willan Caicedo,Samuel Oblitas,Eduardo Somarriba,Arlene López-Sampson Pdf

This collection features four peer-reviewed literature reviews on tropical agroforestry. The first chapter addresses the challenges associated with incorporating agroforestry into agroecological intensification and sustainable landscapes. The chapter also considers the challenge of developing policies in support of agroforestry, and the challenge of developing agroforestry at scale. The second chapter reviews to what extent agroforests are able to meet the objectives of sustainable forest management, focusing on biodiversity conservation, supply of forest products and carbon capture. The chapter also highlights the potential limits of system intensification in delivering ecosystem goods and services. The third chapter presents an overview of the ecosystem services that can be delivered by tropical agroforestry systems. The chapter presents practical approaches for trade-off analysis between ecosystem services and plant biodiversity for better design (or redesign) and how management of agroforestry systems can be optimised. The final chapter summarises the importance of cocoa-based agroforestry systems to global agricultural landscapes. The chapter reviews the different cocoa system technologies (e.g. cocoa-timber systems) and presents a four-step guide for analysing the shade canopy of shaded cocoa systems to ensure a diverse, resilient agroforestry system is in place. What is an Instant Insight? An Instant Insight gives you immediate access to key research on a topic, allowing you to get right to the heart of a subject in an instant and empowering you to contribute to sustainable agriculture.

Author : P. K. R. Nair,C. R. Latt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9401590095

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Directions in Tropical Agroforestry Research by P. K. R. Nair,C. R. Latt Pdf

Author : Louise E. Buck,James P. Lassoie,Erick C.M. Fernandes
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Craig R. Elevitch,Kim M. Wilkinson
Publisher : PAR
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : P.K. Nair
Publisher : Springer
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9401076596

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Agroforestry Systems in the Tropics by P.K. Nair Pdf

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 main objective was to increase the understanding of and provide a state-of the-art information base on existing agroforestry systems. Therefore, the project was designed to systematically collect, collate, synthesize, and dissem inate information on existing agroforestry systems in developing countries. One of the major results of the project, descriptions of existing agroforestry systems, was published as a series of articles in Agroforestry Systems. These system descriptions form the bulk of this book. Other products of the project include a microcomputer database on agroforestry systems, practices and components, and voluminous unpublished reports and records. Perhaps the title of the book is misleading in that the book does not include or cover all existing agroforestry systems in the tropics and geographical regions in the tropics. Additionally, some of the systems described are outside the tropical boul;ldaries of 23. 5" Nand S latitudes. For the purpose of this book, the word tropics is used in a general sense to also include subtropical developing countries that have agro-ecological and socio-economic character istics and land-use problems similar to those of the countries within the geographical limits of the tropical belt.

Author : P. K. R. Nair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Agroforestry
ISBN : OCLC:236146048

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Directions in Tropical Agroforestry Research by P. K. R. Nair Pdf

Acknowledged world leaders in various aspects of tropical agroforestry were invited at a one-day symposium to present state-of-the-art reviews of the developments in their respective research areas

Author : Florencia Montagnini,Carl F. Jordan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783540272441

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Tropical Forest Ecology by Florencia Montagnini,Carl F. Jordan Pdf

Research in tropical forestry is confronted with the task of finding strategies to alleviate pressure on remaining forests, and techniques to enhance forest regeneration and restore abandoned lands, using productive alternatives that can be attractive to local human populations. In addition, sustainable forestry in tropical countries must be supported by adequate policies to promote and maintain specific activities at local and regional scales. Here, a multi-disciplinary approach is presented, to better the understanding of tropical forest ecology, as a necessary step in developing adequate strategies for conservation and management. The authors have long experience in both academic and practical matters related to tropical forest ecology and management.

Author : P. K. Ramachandran Nair,M.R. Rao,L.E. Buck
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789401724241

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New Vistas in Agroforestry by P. K. Ramachandran Nair,M.R. Rao,L.E. Buck Pdf

It was in late 2002 that the idea of preparing a collection of multi-authored chapters on different aspects of ag- st forestry as a compendium for the 1 World Congress of Agroforestry, June 2004, was tossed around. With the approval of the idea by the Congress Organizing Committee, serious efforts to make it a reality got under way in early 2003. The rigorously peer-reviewed and edited manuscripts were submitted to the publisher in December 2003. Considering the many differentindividualsinvolved in the task as authors and manuscriptreviewers, we feel quite pleased that the task could be accomplished within this timeframe. We are pleased also about the contents on several counts. First of all, the tropical-temperate mix of topics is a rare feature of a publication of this nature. In spite of the scienti?c commonalities between tropical and temperate practices of agroforestry, the differences between them are so enormous that it is often impossible to mesh them together in one publication. Secondly, several of the chapters are on topics that have not been discussed or described much in agroforestryliterature. A third feature is that some of the authors, though well known in their own disciplinary areas, are somewhat new to agroforestry; the perceptions and outlooks of these scholars who are relatively unin?uenced by the past happenings in agroforestry gives a whole new dimension to agroforestry and broadensthescopeofthesubject. Finally, ratherthanjustreviewingandsummarizingpastwork,mostchapterstake the extra effort in attempting to outline the next steps.

Author : Jose I. Furtado,William B. Morgan,James R. Pfafflin,Kenneth Ruddle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000698244

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Tropical Resources by Jose I. Furtado,William B. Morgan,James R. Pfafflin,Kenneth Ruddle Pdf

Originally published in 1990 Tropical Resources presents in-depth coverage of the extremely diverse tropical environments, the resources to be found within the region and their production, and ecological management. The book discusses economic geography and ways of utilizing available resources, including those of tropical forests, wildlife, tidal wetlands and the sea. The book also include chapters on the development and land use of protected areas, the ecological aspects of pasture resources; and the impacts of economic development and population damage. In addition, studies are offered on tropical soils, including their distribution properties and management and the ecological processes at work in tropical forests. For geographers, economists and policymakers, the book provides a wealth of information on tropical resources and their potential development.