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Agroforestry is the cultivation, by farmers, of trees or other woody plants with crops or pasture. Its scientific study is attracting great interest and increasing funding because of its potential to produce sustainable agricultural systems and agroforestry is now included in most university and college courses covering land use subjects. Tropical Agroforestry is the first book that provides an analytical account of the principles, as well as the practices, of agroforestry within the context of the needs of land occupiers and, in so doing, describes the various specialist aspects that are now emerging as part of this discipline. The main objective throughout the book is to present, in a readable way, the underlying functional basis of woody/non-woody plant mixtures and to give a balanced account of how agroforestry can contribute to sustainable production from land. Understanding the biology of multipurpose trees is a key to this.

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title:Tropical Agroforestry
author:Huxley, P. A.
publisher:Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
isbn10 | asin:
print isbn13:9780632040476
ebook isbn13:9780632062379
language:English
subjectAgroforestry--Tropics.
publication date:1999
lcc:S494.5.A45H925 1999eb
ddc:634.9/9/0913
subject:Agroforestry--Tropics.
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Tropical Agroforestry
Peter Huxley
Tropical Agroforestry Tropical Agriculture - image 2
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1999
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CONTENTS
Preface
ix
Acknowledgements
x
Section I
1
1
Introduction
3
2
The Nature of Agroforestry
8
3
A Need for Agroforestry?
19
4
Agroforestry and the Farmer: Why Use Woody Plants?
25
5
Animal Agroforestry
39
6
Agroforestry and Soil and Water Conservation
51
Recommended Reading
64
Section II
67
7
The Pros and Cons of 'Woodiness'
69
8
Learning from Growing Crops
82
9
Agroforestry and the Use of Environmental Resources: The 'Promise' of Agroforestry
92
10
Plant Spacing and Arrangement: An Essential Management Tool
103
11
Resource Allocation in Plants
109
Recommended Reading
118
Section III
119
12
The TreeCrop Interface: A Key to Biological Success or Failure in Agroforestry
121
13
Competition and Complementarity
130
14
Measuring the Efficiency of Agroforestry Systems
144
Recommended Reading
152
Section IV
153
15
Trees in Support of Agriculture: More about Trees
155
16
Classifying Multipurpose Trees: What Are Functional Types?
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