Living with the trees of life : towards the transformation of tropical agriculture / Roger R.B. Leakey.
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TextPublisher: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 200 pages) : illustrations, chartsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 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
- EE112
- EE116
- FF020
- JJ600
- KK600
- PP300
- UU485
- 634 23
- SB171.T73 L43 2012eb
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.
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.
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