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Mimicking Nature: A Review of Successional Agroforestry Systems as an Analogue to Natural Regeneration of Secondary Forest Stands
Over the past 30 years, successional agroforestry systems (SAFS) have been increasingly promoted in Latin America as an approach for recovering soils...
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Agroforestry as a Climate-Smart Agriculture: Strategic Interventions, Current Practices and Policies
Global climate projections present a very grim picture for the future of agriculture in parts of Africa and Asia. Projections indicate marked impact...
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Shifting Cultivation and Taungya
Shifting Cultivation or swidden farming is considered the oldest form of agriculture. It refers to the traditional, centuries-old farming system, in...
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The Need for Sustainable Agricultural Land-Use Systems: Benefits from Integrated Agroforestry Systems
This chapter introduces the different agroforestry systems (AFSs) as part of the diversification of agricultural landscapes and gives examples of...
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Assessment of Impact of Land Uses on Soil Carbon Stock and Quality
Deforestation due to urbanization depletes soil quality and increases greenhouse gas emission into the atmosphere leading to climate change. Hence,...
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Tropical Alley Crop** and Improved Fallows
Alley crop** is an agroforestry practice of growing an arable crop between rows of trees or perennial shrubs. In tropical alley crop**, the...
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Crop Diversification: Crop**/System Approach for Enhancing Farmers’ Income
Agriculture including horticulture is the riskiest of all professions as there are many variables affecting the outcome. About 86% Indian...
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Production Functions and Factors in Agroecosystems
Agroecological production systems are often described as being knowledge-intensive or management-intensive. However, what does the term ‘intensity’...
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Agroforestry for Biodiversity Conservation
Habitat loss and environmental degradation decrease biodiversity (BD), thereby affecting food security, agricultural sustainability, environmental...
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Carbon Stabilisation in Tropical Ecosystem
Carbon (C) cycling and sequestration are two paradigms in global C stabilisation. On one part, continuous biogeochemical cycling of carbonaceous C...
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The Impacts of Climate Change on Soil Fertility in Nigeria
Climate change is one of the global problems, which has dominated the media headlines in recent times. It is a complex global problem because it is...
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Industrial Applications of Biodiversity Potentials in Africa
Biodiversity is fundamental to development, for improving food security, conservation, industrialization, and ecosystem services in Africa....
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New Paradigms in Soil Health Management for Sustainable Production of Plantation Crops
It is crucial to achieve economic and ecological sustainability in the production of plantation crops in view of their importance to support the...
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Potential of Gliricidia-Based Agroforestry Systems for Resource-Limited Agroecosystems
Over the last decades, considerable attention has been paid to the identification and introduction of suitable tree species in agroecosystems to...
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Reductions in water, soil and nutrient losses and pesticide pollution in agroforestry practices: a review of evidence and processes
Background and aimsAgroforestry systems combining trees with crops or pastures have been widely used to reduce water, soil, and nutrient losses and...
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Agroforestry to Enhance Livelihood Security in Africa: Research Trends and Emerging Challenges
Africa faces intricate challenges including severe shortage of food, fuelwood and fodder primarily due to increasing human and livestock population...
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Soil Health in Crop** Systems: An Overview
Soil health has existed as an integrative property that reveals the capability of soil to react to agricultural interference, so that it persistently...
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Agroforestry for Livelihood and Biodiversity Conservation
Trees play a predominant role in protecting and sustaining the productivity of coastal and island eco-regions, yet they are facing greater challenge...
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Soil Management
Ethiopia is characterized by diverse climateClimate, topography, geology, soils, hydrology, and culture. The diversity in these soil forming...
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Enhancing agroecosystem productivity with woody perennials in semi-arid West Africa. A meta-analysis
Soil degradation in semi-arid West Africa can be reversed through an intensified application of organic matter, especially on coarse soils. Woody...
