- Com 64 anos, o agricultor Paulo Roberto Santana carrega no rosto as marcas de uma prática agrícola precária. São manchas provocadas pelo câncer de pele que contraiu por causa do sol e dos venenos químicos aplicados durante 12 anos em lavouras de algodão, no interior de Minas Gerais. Hoje, curado...
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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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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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1999-01-01 The papers in this volume describe field test experiences with methods for measuring carbon storage by three types of land use: natural forest, plantation forest, and agroforestry. Winrock and its partners are working with organizations concerned with climate change and involved in carbon...
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1990-01-19 This publication discusses the role of fruit trees in tropical agroforestry systems. 29 pages 2 copies
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1988-01-01 The importance of trees grown under agroforest system, especially in Kenya and other tropical-subtropical countries, cannot be overstated. Trees provide environmental protection, building materials, energay as charcoal and fuelwood, shade and aesthetics and food for both human beings and...
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Access Agriculture Training Video In semi-arid West Africa, farmers and herders explain why and how trees and livestock play a crucial role in obtaining a productive soil and crop. In Niger and Ghana this is one of the strategies of integrated striga and soil fertility management that has a...
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Trees for Life Journal(ISSN: 1559-1891) is an open-access journal of traditional knowledge and scientific studies of beneficial trees and plants published online by Trees for Life, a nonprofit organization. Vision: People around the world sharing traditional knowledge and scientific studies of...
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For those of you working to rebuild agriculture in hurricane-ravaged Caribbean and Central American communities, we’ve assembled somefree agroforestry training materialsthat will immensely benefit you: How to plant windbreaks to stop and slow heavy winds How to build contours to stop erosion How...
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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...