Tropical Agroforestry is the first book to provide a comprehensive, analytical account of the principles as well as the practical implications of agroforestry.

Tropical Agroforestry presents information in such a way that it will be of use to students, researchers and development project personnel from many different backgrounds.

Contents

1. The Nature of Agroforestry
2. A Need for Agroforestry
3. Agroforestry and the Farmer: Why Use Woody Plants?
4. Animal Argoforestry
5. Agroforestry and Soil and Water Conservation
6. The Pros and Cons of "Woodiness"
7. Learning from Growing Crops
8. Agroforestry and the Use of Environmental Resources: the " Promise" of Agroforestry
9. Plant Spacing and Arrangement: an Essential Management Tool
10. Resource Allocation in Plants
11. The Tree-Crop Interface: a Key to Biological Success of Failure in Agroforestry
12. Competition and Complementarity
13. Measuring the Efficiency of Agroforestry Systems
14. Trees in Support of Agriculture: More About Trees
15. Classifying Multipurpose Trees: What are Functional Types?
16. Phenology: Understanding Plant Behaviour
17. The Form and Nature of Root Systems
18. Pruning and Tree Management: Some Practical Aspects
19. Helpful Associations: Soil Biota, Nitrogen Fixing Organisms and Mycorrhizas
20. Propagation, Planting Out and Tree Protection
21. "Patchiness": Living in the Real World
22. Trees and their Environment
23. Agroforestry and Site Modification: Nutrient Recycling and Soil Organic Matter
24. Agroforestry and Sustainability
25. Introducing the Philosophy and Practice of Agroforestry Research
26. Agroforestry Field Experimentation: a First Approach

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