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About this book
This book consolidates the descriptive results of a pantropical project called Agroforestry Systems Inventory (AFSI), undertaken by the International Council for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) from 1982 to 1987. Since agroforestry was a relatively new term when the project was initiated, the main objective was to increase the understanding of and provide a state-of the-art information base on existing agroforestry systems. Therefore, the project was designed to systematically collect, collate, synthesize, and dissem inate information on existing agroforestry systems in developing countries. One of the major results of the project, descriptions of existing agroforestry systems, was published as a series of articles in Agroforestry Systems. These system descriptions form the bulk of this book. Other products of the project include a microcomputer database on agroforestry systems, practices and components, and voluminous unpublished reports and records. Perhaps the title of the book is misleading in that the book does not include or cover all existing agroforestry systems in the tropics and geographical regions in the tropics. Additionally, some of the systems described are outside the tropical boul;ldaries of 23. 5" Nand S latitudes. For the purpose of this book, the word tropics is used in a general sense to also include subtropical developing countries that have agro-ecological and socio-economic character istics and land-use problems similar to those of the countries within the geographical limits of the tropical belt.
Reviews
`This book should be on the shelves of any library that collects knowledge about tropical crop systems.'
D. Burger, The Forestry Chronicle, December 1989
`This book is a milestone in agroforestry development and should be on every library and agroforester's shelf.'
Commonwealth Forestry Review, 69:1, 1990
D. Burger, The Forestry Chronicle, December 1989
`This book is a milestone in agroforestry development and should be on every library and agroforester's shelf.'
Commonwealth Forestry Review, 69:1, 1990
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. P.K.R. Nair is Professor of Agroforestry at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA and has been a founder-scientist at the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya for about 10 years. He is a leading world authority and a pioneering researcher and educator in agroforestry.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Agroforestry Systems in the Tropics
Editors: P.K. Nair
Series Title: Forestry Sciences
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1989
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-247-3790-1Published: 31 March 1989
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7659-3Published: 12 October 2011
Series ISSN: 0924-5480
Series E-ISSN: 1875-1334
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 664
Keywords
- DSI_D011
- Life Sciences
- Ecology
- Forestry
- Agriculture