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2000-08-01 The purpose of this report is to identify high priority research questions and technology transfer needs for the five major agroforestry practice areas: 1) alley cropping, 2) forest farming, 3) silvopasture, 4) riparian forest buffers, and 5) windbreaks. 23 pages, illustrated, photos
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1989-01-07 This paper was submitted to Agroforestry Systems (Conference on Agroforestry, Principles and Practice, in Edinburgh 1989) Biomass production in arid zones may be increassed without irrigation by using runoff farming techniques. The salient feature of this technique is that large amounts of water...
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This agroforestry manual is a culmination of many years of soil conservation work in Eastern Province. It has been accomplished as a result of team work involving various experts in the departments of agriculture, forestry and natural resources as well as various organizations. It will be useful...
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1989-01-01 This paper begins with an overview of Ethiopian geography, climate, agriculture, vegetation, and soils. The following section contains a summary of the evaluations made on the trees studied; in that section research methods are stated. The final section of the main body of the paper is a review...
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2001-01-01 Agroforestry combines or integrates trees and/or shrubs with other crops and/or animals in a farming system. The trees or shrubs may be grown either at the same time as the crops or in rotation with the crops. This book includes examples of both methods.
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1999-01-01 This lesson plan is designed for training of adult short term volunteer personnel for assignment in agroforestry self help programs in Malawi, Africa, who have bery little previous experience in the agroforestry disciplines, to become familiarized with agroforestry technologies, to be able to...
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1986-01-01 This book provides a neo-symbiotic integrated approach between agriculture, horticulture, forestry and biology, optimising the biomass production on one hand and conservation of ecosystem on the other. The manuscript is the first of its type for popularising agroforestry among students, teachers...
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This is a step-by-step guide to the promotion of fodder shrubs for smallholder dairy enterprises in East Africa. It is intended for both extension managers and field-based extensionists, in particular those who are startingto work with fodder shrubs for the first time. Ths book is divided into...
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This presentation descirbes, defined and clasifies agroforestry systems that qualify as crop under tree cover. Examples of scattered trees in cropland are given with their structural and functional characteristics and their management. Plantation crop combinations are divided into...
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The main types of agroforests are described; tree homegardens, village forest gardens, "jardins de case", multipurpose woodlots, agroforestry buffer zones as well as some lesser known types of agroforests. These descriptions lead to a broad definition of agroforests. Looking at the application...