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

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...

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Main Author: Leakey, Roger R. B., (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2012.
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505 0 # |a Revelations in Kumba -- The big global issues -- Journeys of discovery in agroforestry -- Diversity and function in farming systems -- Finding the trees of life -- Selecting the best trees -- Vegetative propagation -- Case studies from the Pacific -- Marketing tree products -- Redirecting agriculture: going multifunctional -- Multifunctional agriculture: proof of concept -- The convenient truths. 
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520 3 # |a 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. 
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650 # 4 |a Plant Breeding and Genetics. 
650 # 4 |a Soil Fertility. 
650 # 4 |a Agroforestry and Multipurpose Trees: Community, Farm and Social Forestry. 
650 # 4 |a Land Resources. 
650 # 4 |a Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000) 
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