Living with the trees of life : towards the transformation of tropical agriculture /

• Main Author: Leakey, Roger R. B., (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2012.
• Subjects: Tree crops > Tropics.; Agroforestry > Tropics.; Forestry Economics, (New March 2000); Food Economics, (New March 2000); Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Soil Fertility.; Agroforestry and Multipurpose Trees: Community, Farm and Social Forestry.; Land Resources.; Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Agroforestry.; Agroforestry systems.; Case studies.; Ecological restoration.; Food security.; Green revolution.; Improved varieties.; Indigenous knowledge.; Land management.; Rehabilitation.; Soil fertility.; Sustainability.; Tree breeding.; Tropics.; Electronic books.
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• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 200 pages) : illustrations, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This book analyses and presents case studies on how agroforestry offers innovative and compelling pathways towards food security, human well-being and environmental sustainability. The book underlines how modern science and improved varieties of trees allied to centuries-old knowledge can provide a new set of marketable products of special importance to poor and marginalized people in the tropics and sub-tropics, while simultaneously rehabilitating degraded land and restoring soil fertility.