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Resources Tagged: Agroforestry

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  1. Grown in Asia - Lesser Known Crops of Significance

    2009-04-01 This article is from ECHO Asia Note #1 When ripe, the yellow and apricot-colored fruit of the marian plum (Bouea macrophylla Griff.) seem to glow among the tree's glossy green leaves. The ripe fruit of marian plum offers an edible, crisp skin and juicy flesh. Besides being eaten raw as a dessert...
    Tropical Food Crops Tropical Fruit Agroforestry Asia

  2. Agroforestry Principles

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    1992-01-20 In simplest language, agroforestry is the production of trees and of non-tree crops or animals on the same piece of land. The crops can be grown together at the same time, can be grown in rotation, or can even be grown in separate plots when materials from one are used to benefit another....
    Agroforestry

  3. Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration

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    2010-01-01 For many years, conventional Western forestry methods have been applied, and exotic tree species promoted in Sahelian countries in order to combat desertification. Large and small projects were commissioned to curtail the assumed southward movement of the Sahara desert, but few made any lasting...
    FMNR Agroforestry Apple Ring Acacia Farmer Managed Nat...

  4. Sloping Agricultural Land Technology (SALT)

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    2012-01-01 Asia makes up less than one third (30%) of the world’s land area and yet carries over half (56%) of the world’s population. Moreover, the average population density of Asia becomes a significant long-term problem when food production is considered. Some countries in Asia have a population density...
    Terracing A-Frame Level SALT Highland Farming Land Management Sloping Agricultur... Soil Degradation Agroforestry

  5. Living Fence

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    1991-01-01 There are several reasons for establishing fences on the small farm. Fences are used to: To mark boundary lines between farms or next to roads. To separate adjacent fields used for distinct purposes To protect and keep animals from straying To protect crops from animal damage A fence represents a...
    Agroforestry Living Fence Fences

  6. TN #60 The Farmer Managed Agro-forestry Farming System (FMAFS)

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    2010-01-01 Farming communities in the semi-arid tropical regions of Africa are becoming particularly vulnerable and face enormous challenges for their survival. Climate change, diminishing and unreliable rainfall, traditional mono culture cropping farming practices, high population growth, frequent famines...
    FMAFS Agroforestry Farming Systems Integrated System Farmer Managed JCB

  7. Tree Gardening

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    2011-01-01 Lack of food security is one of the biggest challenges that Central Africans face each day as they toil in their gardens, trying to produce enough food to simply feed their families and afford other expenses in life such as health care or schooling for their children. Main factors limiting...
    Forestry Fruit Fruit Tree Crops Biodiversity Health and Nutrition Agroforestry Food Security Tree Planting

  8. 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.
    Tree crops Agroforestry

  9. Science in Agroforestry

    1995-08-10 Science in Agroforestryprovides information on how science and research will imporve the sustainablitiy of agroforestry systems. The development of agroforestry systems should be based on four key features: competition, complexity, profitablility, and sustainability. The book includes these ideas...
    Sustainable Agrofo... Agroforestry Systems Agroforestry Planning Agroforestry

  10. Vegetative Tree Propagation in Agroforestry: Training Guidelines and References

    2002-01-01 A one week practicaltraining course on vegetative propagation of agroforestry trees. The overall objective of the course is to improve the practical vegetative plant propagation skills of field technicians or nursery managers and to provide them with the necessary theoretical knowledge on the...
    Tree Planting Agroforestry