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This 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 should be of calue to students, teachers, and researchers in agroforestry, farming systems, and tropical land use.

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Author:   P. K. Ramachandran Nair
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1993 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.990kg
ISBN:  

9780792321347

ISBN 10:   0792321340
Pages:   499
Publication Date:   31 July 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Adult education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Section I. Introduction.- 1. The history of agroforestry.- 2. Definition and concepts of agroforestry.- Section II. Agroforestry Systems and Practices.- 3. Classification of agroforestry systems.- 4. Distribution of agroforestry systems in the tropics.- 5. Shifting cultivation and improved fallows.- 6. Taungya.- 7. Homegardens.- 8. Plantation crop combinations.- 9. Alley cropping.- 10. Other agroforestry systems and practices.- Section III. Agroforestry Species.- 11. General principles of plant productivity.- 12. Agroforestry species: the multipurpose trees.- 13. Component interactions.- Section IV. Soil Productivity and Protection.- 14. Tropical soils.- 15. Effects of trees on soils.- 16. Nutrient cycling and soil organic matter.- 17. Nitrogen fixation.- 18. Soil conservation.- Section V. Design and Evaluation of Agroforestry Systems.- 19. The diagnosis and design (D & D) methodology.- 20. Field experiments in agroforestry.- 21. On-farm research.- 22. Economic considerations.- 23. Sociocultural considerations.- 24. Evaluation of agroforestry systems.- Section VI. Agroforestry in the Temperate Zone.- 25. Agroforestry in the temperate zone.- List of acronyms and abbreviations.- SI units and conversion factors.

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Dr. P.K.R. Nair is Professor of Agroforestry at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA and has been a founder-scientist at the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya for about 10 years. He is a leading world authority and a pioneering researcher and educator in agroforestry.

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