Recursos Etiquetatge: Tree Crops

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  1. Trees and Multistorey Agriculture in Africa: A Textbook for Agroforestry

    Key Resource
    01-01-1993 Part I deals with the relationship between trees and people, and the threat to trees posed by social, economic and political factors. Part II focuses on multistorey farming, an economically sound cropping method used in many tropical regions. The annexes provide useful tables on food and fodder...
    Agroforestry Multipurpose trees Tree crops Africa

  2. Forest farming: towards a solution to problems of world hunger and conservation

    The integration of tree and other farming can establish a sounder ecological balance and greater productivity of food and materials for clothing, fuel and shelter. The book suggests planting and cropping methods, and a range of potentially useful trees.
    Agroforestry Tree crops

  3. Planting Tree Crops: Practical Guide to Dryland Farming

    This booklet, along eith other World Neighbor educational materials, reflects this focus on encouraging sef-sufficiency of persons in rural communities throughout the world.Planting Tree Crops: Practical guide to Dryland Farmingspecifically explains ways to sustainably plant and manage tree crops...
    Tree Planting Sustainable Forest... Tree crops Dryland Farming

  4. Calliandra: A Versatile Small Tree for the Humid Tropics

    01-01-1983 This report describes a little-known tree legume, Calliandra calothrysus. In 1936, foresters transported seed from Guatemala to Indonesia. They were interested in calliandra and other legumes as possible green manures or shade trees in coffee plantations. Today Javanese cultivate calliandra...
    Indonesia Tree crops Reforestation

  5. Integrated farm management III.

    Covers aspects of farm managementand water conservation, animal husbandry, planting tree crops, and soil fertility management.
    Wood Tree crops Livestock Cropping Systems Soil Fertility Asia

  6. Useful Trees and Shrubs for Ethiopia: Identification, Propagation, and Management for Agricultural and Pastoral Communities

    One of the main aims of this book is to benefit the rural people of Ethiopia by encouraging them to grow more trees and shrubs of a wider variety of species than they have up to now. It provides information on a selection of useful tree and shrub species for the range of agroclimatic conditions...
    Pastoral Systems Trees Shrubs Useful Tree Tree crops Multipurpose trees Multipurpose Shrubs Ethiopia East Africa

  7. The Agronomy and Economy of Important Tree Crops of the Developing World

    Major tree crops contribute substantially to the economy of many developing countries on the Asian, African and Latin American continents. For example, coffee is the main revenue earner for Kenya. This book provides a comprehensive review of the agronomy, botany, taxonomy, genetics, chemistry,...
    Economics Useful Tree Tree crops Agronomy Developing countries

  8. Indigenous Fruit Trees in the Tropics: Domestication, Utilization and Commercialization

    Key Resource 10-12-2007 It has been recognized that an important factor in improving the viability of rural livelihoods in developing countries is the promotion of sustainable agriculture. As opposed to relying solely on cash crops, this can be more easily achieved through the domestication of various indigenous fruit...
    Endem Tropical Fruit Tree Tree crops Tropical Trees

  9. Forest farming: towards a solution to problems of world hunger and conservation

    The integration of tree & other farming can establish a sounder ecological balance & greater productivity of food & materials for clothing, fuel & shelter. The book suggests planting & cropping methods, & a range of potentially useful trees.
    Agroforestry Tree crops

  10. Living with the Trees of Life Toward the Transformation of Tropical Agriculture

    Based on the career of Roger Leakey, the former Director of Research at the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, this book presents the experiences of real life situations in rural villages of remote and distant places. Living with the Trees of Lifedemonstrates how the...
    Tropical Agriculture Tropical Trees Tree crops Agroforestry Trees