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This volume is a collection of 31 multi-authored, rigorously peer-reviewed chapters on different aspects of agroforestry, produced as a compendium on the occasion of the 1st World Congress of Agroforestry, June 2004. Its contenst include a tropical-temperate mix of topics, which is a rare feature of a publication of this nature. Several of the chapters are on topics that have not been discussed or described much in agroforestry literature. 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 uninfluenced by the past happenings in agroforestry gives a whole new dimension to agroforestry and broadens the scope of the subject. Finally, rather than just reviewing and summarizing past work, most chapters take the extra effort in attempting to outline the next steps. Agroforestry stands to gain enormously from the infusion of these new and different ideas and bold initiatives, thus making the title ""New Vistas"" quite justifiable.

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Author:   P. K. Ramachandran Nair ,  M.R. Rao ,  L.E. Buck
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2004
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 29.70cm
Weight:   1.279kg
ISBN:  

9789048166732

ISBN 10:   904816673
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   15 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Agroforestry and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.- Systems, Practices, and Components.- Hardwood silvopasture management in North America.- Riparian forest buffers in agroecosystems — lessons learned from the Bear Creek Watershed, central Iowa, USA.- Short-rotation woody crops and phytoremediation: Opportunities for agroforestry?.- Windbreaks in North American agricultural systems.- Organic farming and agroforestry: Alleycropping for mulch production for organic farms of southeastern United States.- Mechanized land preparation in forest-based fallow systems: The experience from Eastern Amazonia.- Medicinal and aromatic plants in agroforestry systems.- Forest gardens as an ‘intermediate’ land-use system in the nature—culture continuum: Characteristics and future potential.- The enigma of tropical homegardens.- Biological and Ecological Issues.- Nature vs. nurture: managing relationships between forests, agroforestry and wild biodiversity.- Tree domestication in tropical agroforestry.- Managing biological and genetic diversity in tropical agroforestry.- Why extensive research and development did not promote use of peach palm fruit in Latin America.- Exploiting the potential of indigenous agroforestry trees: Parkia biglobosa and Vitellaria paradoxa in sub-Saharan Africa.- Ecological interactions, management lessons and design tools in tropical agroforestry systems.- Interspecific interactions in temperate agroforestry.- Ecology of tree intercropping systems in the North temperate region: Experiences from southern Ontario, Canada.- Agroforestry as an approach to minimizing nutrient loss from heavily fertilized soils: The Florida experience.- Carbon sequestration: An underexploited environmental benefit of agroforestry systems.- Economics, Marketing, and Adoption.- Agroforestry development: An environmental economic perspective.- Adoption of agroforestry innovations in the tropics: A review.- Scaling up the impact of agroforestry: Lessons from three sites in Africa and Asia.- Trees of prosperity: Agroforestry, markets and the African smallholder.- Building opportunities for small-farm agroforestry to supply domestic wood markets in developing countries.- Markets and marketing strategies for agroforestry specialty products in North America.- Peasants, agroforesters, and anthropologists: A 20-year venture in income-generating trees and hedgerows in Haiti.- Knowledge Integration.- Computer-based tools for decision support in agroforestry: Current state and future needs.- Anthropogenic grasslands in Southeast Asia: Sociology of knowledge and implications for agroforestry.- Agroforestry research for development in India: 25 years of experiences of a national program.- Public/private partnerships in agroforestry: the example of working together to improve cocoa sustainability.- List of Reviewers.

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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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