Agroforestry has much to offer in providing diverse products for use by the ever-increasing human and livestock population on a sustainable basis. This text looks at agroforestry systems in the Asia-Pacific region, where the technology is of special significance on account of a decrease in land-man ratio and an increase in deforestation rate to dangerous levels.
Agroforestry has much to offer in providing diverse products for use by the ever-increasing human and livestock population on a sustainable basis. This text looks at agroforestry systems in the Asia-Pacific region, where the technology is of special significance on account of a decrease in land-man ratio and an increase in deforestation rate to dangerous levels.
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Agroforestry systems on degraded lands - an introduction; land degradation - a global menace and its improvement through agroforestry; possibilities offered by grasslands; ICRAFs mission in Asia - a test of three systems hypotheses; indigenous agroforestry systems - an adoptable strategy for rehabilitation and sustainable management of degraded land; role of agroforestry in restoring degraded areas; sustainable development of degraded lands in Australia through agroforestry and other farming systems; the potential of agroforestry for sequestering carbon in wastelands and mitigating climate change; agroforestry options for degraded and problematic soils in India; management and monitoring of fragile ecosystems in the aric North West of China - development of a silva-pastoral ecosystem; silvopastoral research in temperate upland and lowland grassland in the United Kingdom; possible roles of three strata forage system for the sustainable development of degraded small holder dryland farming area in Indonesia; jackfruit species and their multiple uses in Nepal; environmental impact of farm forestry activities - a case from Chitwan, Nepal; sustainable development of pasture industry in China; agroforestry technologies for sustainable production in Sri Lanka; production potential of traditional agroforestry systems in Mid-Hills of Himachal Himalaya; integrated land use management for Eastern Himalayan agro-ecosystems; rehabilitation of mine spoils with particular reference to multipurpose trees; degraded lands, agroforestry and energy needs - issue and development strategies; blowing ten myths about agroforestry - restoring the productivity of marginal dry regions; the socio-economic millieu and agroforestry in arid region of western Rajastan.
