Resources Tagged: Agroforestry

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  1. Agroforestry Series: Bananas Are More Than Bananas WS (August2022)

    Agroforestry Crops Plantains Bananas Agroforestry Asia

  2. Agrodok 016, Agroforestry

    1994-01-01 Farmers in large parts of the tropics have no tradition of aiming at maximum production per hectare; their main concern was to reduce the risk of crop failure. The principal reason is that - except in the main population centres - there were no convenient markets for food surpluses. The...
    Agrodok Agroforestry Systems Agroforestry

  3. 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...
    Fences Living Fence Agroforestry

  4. 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...
    JCB Farmer Managed Integrated System Farming Systems Agroforestry FMAFS

  5. 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...
    Tree Planting Food Security Agroforestry Health and Nutrition Biodiversity Fruit Tree Crops Fruit Forestry

  6. 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...
    Farmer Managed Nat... Apple Ring Acacia Agroforestry FMNR

  7. 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