Exempel på agroforestry

• This is a useful contribution to the biology of cocoa with wider implications for tropical conservation and agroforestry.

• There could be widespread reforestation, either through plantation forestry or through smaller-scale agroforestry.

• The book stresses the importance of agroforestry in soil conservation.

• She worked in a community agroforestry project.

• What distinguishes the food production through agroforestry systems from that through intensive annual cropping is its inherent safeguards to ensure sustainable use of environmental resources.

• Fully researcher-managed trials are recommended for agronomic evaluation of complex agroforestry technologies.

• Its focus in this context was on agroforestry and tree plantations.

• This paper focuses on the potential of agroforestry and tree plantations to contribute in this effort.

• There is also a role for agroforestry and plantation systems to provide habitat or connectivity, at least for some species.

• These include grain legumes, intercropping and rotation strategies involving legumes, green manures, and agroforestry.

• Agroecological concepts are then introduced and applied to monocultures, intercropping and agroforestry.

• The chapters are mostly divided into: firstly, the relevance to agroforestry practices, followed by a section on methods.

• It is described as a manual for research in agroforestry with emphasis on the effects of trees on soil and soil fertility.

• By implication, it is also hypothesized that agroforestry systems perform the above functions better than sole cropping systems of annual agricultural crops.

• Easy propagation methods and management options for promising soil replenishment tree species are important and urgent needs in agroforestry development.

• By incorporating trees into crop fields in various spatial arrangements, all simultaneous agroforestry systems contribute to reduction of soil erosion.

• This is a useful contribution to the biology of cocoa with wider implications for tropical conservation and agroforestry.

• The next section, on functional aspects, deals largely with exploitation of the spatial diversity which agroforestry systems offer.

• For agroforestry projects to compete in carbon markets, their sequestration cost needs to be lower than the market price of carbon.