Editors: B. Mohan Kumar, P. K. Ramachandran Nair 2006Publisher: Springer Netherlands About the book: ‘Homegardens’ are integrated tree – crop – animal production systems, often in small parcels of land surrounding homesteads, and primarily found in tropical environments. These agroforestry systems, developed and nurtured by farmers through generations of innovation and experiment, are often cited as the epitome of sustainability,…
Author: Peter Huxley 1999Publisher: Wiley About the book: 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…
Editors: Anthony Young 1997Publisher: CABI About the book: Agroforestry refers to land use systems in which trees or shrubs are grown in association with agricultural crops, or pastures and livestock. From its inception, it has contained a strong element of soil management. Well-designed and managed agroforestry systems have the potential to control run-off and erosion, maintain soil organic matter and…
Editors: Gordon A. M., Newman S. M., Coleman B. R. W. 2018Publisher: CABI About the book: This second edition of the book contains 12 chapters, which aims to: (1) to update existing chapters with the tremendous advances in temperate agroforestry knowledge that have come to light in the last 20 years; and (2) if possible, to add new global regional…
Authors: Alain Atangana, Damase Khasa, Scott Chang, Ann Degrande 2013Publisher: Springer About the book: Agroforestry systems contribute to the maintenance of biodiversity in tropical landscapes. In the East Usambara Mountains of Tanzania, conservational functional group richness was significantly higher in an agrosilvopastoral system than that of an agrisilvicultural or aquasilvicultural system or monoculture plantation. A compilation of nine studies undertaken…
Authors: P. K. Ramachandran Nair, B. Mohan Kumar, Vimala D. Nair 2021Publisher: Springer International Publishing About the book: Agroforestry – the practice of growing trees and crops in interacting combinations – is recognized the world over as an integrated approach to sustainable land-use. Agroforestry systems, being multifunctional, facilitate not only the production of food and wood products but also provide…
Editors: B. Mohan Kumar, P. K. Ramachandran Nair 2011Publisher: Springer Netherlands About the book: This multi-authored volume contains peer-reviewed chapters from the world’s leading researchers and professionals in this topic. It is a compendium of original research articles, case studies, and regional overviews and summarizes the current state of knowledge on carbon sequestration potential of agroforestry systems. The main hypothesis…
Authors: P. K. Ramachandran Nair 1993Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers About the book: Agroforestry has come of age during the past fifteen years. During this period, activities and interest in agroforestry education and training have increased tremendously, as in other aspects of agroforestry development. Today, agroforestry is taught at the senior undergraduate and postgraduate levels in many institutions around the world, either…