TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leakey,Roger R.B.
ED  - C.A.B. International,
TI  - Living with the trees of life: towards the transformation of tropical agriculture 
AV  - SB171.T73 L43 2012eb
U1  - 634 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK
PB  - CABI
KW  - Tree crops
KW  - Tropics
KW  - Agroforestry
KW  - Forestry Economics, (New March 2000)
KW  - Food Economics, (New March 2000)
KW  - Plant Breeding and Genetics
KW  - Soil Fertility
KW  - Agroforestry and Multipurpose Trees: Community, Farm and Social Forestry
KW  - Land Resources
KW  - Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000)
KW  - cabt
KW  - Agroforestry systems
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Ecological restoration
KW  - Food security
KW  - Green revolution
KW  - Improved varieties
KW  - Indigenous knowledge
KW  - Land management
KW  - Rehabilitation
KW  - Soil fertility
KW  - Sustainability
KW  - Tree breeding
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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; Also available in print format
N2  - 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
UR  - https://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781780640990.0000
ER  -