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Agroforestry as a tool for landscape restoration / editors: Florencia Montagnini, Wendy Francesconi and Esteban Rossi.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Agriculture Issues and Policies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agroforestry systems.
- Agroforestry.
- Forest landscape management.
- Forest restoration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (211 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book provides an overview of recent efforts to apply agroforestry technologies to landscape restoration in degraded lands located in tropical and temperate regions world-wide. Topics discussed herein vary according to the specific circumstances of ecosystem or landscape degradation, ranging from extreme conditions and solutions such as sand embankments and vegetative barriers in arid regions of Sudan, to degraded agricultural or pasture lands, implementing successional analogue ecosystems in the Brazilian Amazon, "agrotropic-rainforestry" systems in Cameroon, traditional shifting agricultural technologies without burning in Madagascar, agrosilvopastoral systems in Costa Rica, or reforestation with taungya systems in Venezuela.
- Contents:
- ""AGROFORESTRY AS A TOOL FOR LANDSCAPE RESTORATION""; ""AGROFORESTRY AS A TOOL FOR LANDSCAPE RESTORATION""; ""CONTENTS ""; ""PREFACE ""; ""SECTION 1 � AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS DESIGNED TO RESTORE DEGRADED AREAS TO PRODUCTIVE LAND USE SYSTEMS FOR RURAL PEOPLE ""; ""IMITATING NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS THROUGH SUCCESSIONAL AGROFORESTRY FOR THE REGENERATION OF DEGRADED LANDS - A CASE STUDY OF SMALLHOLDER AGRICULTURE IN NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL ""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""METHODS ""; ""Guiding Image: Natural, Intact Ecosystems ""; ""Functional Principles of Natural Ecosystems ""
- ""Study Site Description """"METHODOLOGY""; ""Definition of Agrotropic-Rainforestry as Adopted in the System""; ""Application of Restoration Methods on Sloped Farmland ""; ""Planting Trees and Crops ""; ""Selective Felling and Girdling of Unwanted Trees ""; ""Choice of Crop and Tree Species for Planting ""; ""Protection of Water Sources ""; ""RESULTS AND DISCUSSION ""; ""Crop Yields ""; ""Alternative Livelihood Activities (ALAs) of Agrotropic-Rainforestry ""; ""Management of Farms on Slopes ""; ""Benefits of Slope Mosaic Agrotropic-Rainforestry ""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES ""
- ""CONSTRAINTS OF TREE ESTABLISHMENT AND THEIR ROLE IN REHABILITATING DEGRADED DRY LAND IN SUDAN""""ABSTRACT ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""METHODS ""; ""The Umjawasir Farm Project ""; ""Sand Trapping Capability and Establishment Constraints of Indigenous Species ""; ""Estimation of Drifting Sand ""; ""RESULTS AND DISCUSSION ""; ""CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION ""; ""REFERENCES""; ""RESTORATION OF DEGRADED PASTURES USING AGROSILVOPASTORAL SYSTEMS WITH NATIVE TREES IN THE NEOTROPICS""; ""ABSTRACT ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""METHODS""; ""Experimental Site ""
- ""Growth, Timber Productivity, and Carbon Sequestration ""
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61761-225-1
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