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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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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.