Resources Tagged: Tree Crops

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  1. Plant Resources of South-East Asia, No. 2: Edible Fruits and Nuts

    Key Resource 1992-01-19 This is the 2nd volume of the multivolume Prosea (Plant Resources of South-East Asia) Handbook which aims to summarize knowledge about useful plants for workers in education, research, extension and industry. Perennial species grown primarily for their ediblefruits(fleshy or dry) which are...
    Tree crops Nut Trees Nuts Fruit

  2. Farms, Trees and Farmers: Responses to Agricultural Intensification

    1997-01-01 This book had its origins in a research project at the Oxford Forestry Institute that was initiated in order to establish a better understanding of how tree management contributes to the strategies of farmers as they respond to pressures to adapt their use of land and other resources to changing...
    South Asia Woodlots-Management Tree crops

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Geisho, its uses, production potential and problems in northern Tigray, Ethiopia

    The aim of this book is to bring about increases in the income and welfare of poor peasant farmers in that area through community-irented, self-reliant and sustainable approach to rural development.
    Cash Crops Ethiopia Tree crops

  6. Nitrogen Fixing Trees for Fodder Production: Proceedings of an International Workshop

    Key Resource 1998-01-19 Organized by Forest, Farm, and Community Tree Network (FACT Net), Winrock International, and BAIF Deveopment ResearchFoundation, march 20-25, 1995 Forest, Farm, and Comunity Tree Research Reports-Special issue, 1998 Forty-three individuals representing 18 countries participated in the workshop....
    Fodder Fodder plants Nitrogen Fixation Nitrogen Fixing Trees Tree crops Fodder trees

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. Useful Trees and Shrubs for Tanzania: Identification, Propagation, and Management for Agricultural and Pastoral Communities

    1994-01-01 This handbook was published with the hope that it will be widely used by extension, education and research institutions in order to foster interest in the growing and management of a wider range of tree and shrub species as part of the development of sustainable land-use systems in Tanzania.
    Useful Tree Pastoral Systems Agricultural Manag... Tanzania Tree crops Multipurpose trees Multipurpose Shrubs East Africa

  10. Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture

    Key Resource 1929-01-19 Beside me was a tree, one lone tree. That tree was locally famous because it was the only tree anywhere in that vicinity; yet its presence proved that once there had been a forest over most of that land-now treeless and waste. The farmers of a past generation had cleared the forest. They had...
    Permanant Agriculture Agroforestry Systems Tree crops Nuts