Living with the trees of life :
Leakey, Roger R. B.,
Living with the trees of life : towards the transformation of tropical agriculture / Roger R.B. Leakey. - 1 online resource (xxi, 200 pages) : illustrations, charts
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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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 new set of marketable products of special importance to poor and marginalized people in the tropics and sub-tropics, while simultaneously rehabilitating degraded land and restoring soil fertility.
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.
SB171.T73 / L43 2012eb
634
Living with the trees of life : towards the transformation of tropical agriculture / Roger R.B. Leakey. - 1 online resource (xxi, 200 pages) : illustrations, charts
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Access limited to subscribing institution.
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 new set of marketable products of special importance to poor and marginalized people in the tropics and sub-tropics, while simultaneously rehabilitating degraded land and restoring soil fertility.
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.
SB171.T73 / L43 2012eb
634