Agroforestry is the cultivation, by farmers, of trees or other woody plants with crops or pasture. Its scientific study is attracting great interest and increasing funding because of its potential to produce sustainable agricultural systems and agroforestry is now included in most university and college courses covering land use subjects. Tropical Agroforestry is the first book that provides an analytical account of the principles, as well as the practices, of agroforestry within the context of the needs of land occupiers and, in so doing, describes the various specialist aspects that are now emerging as part of this discipline. The main objective throughout the book is to present, in a readable way, the underlying functional basis of woody/non-woody plant mixtures and to give a balanced account of how agroforestry can contribute to sustainable production from land. Understanding the biology of multipurpose trees is a key to this.
About the Author
Peter Huxley is the author of Tropical Agroforestry, published by Wiley.
Features
* addresses the underlying functional and biological nature of agroforestry and presents a balanced account of the potential of agroforestry practices * the author is a well-known contributor to agroforestry literature and was previously Director of Research Development at the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry * presents information in such a way that it will be of use to students and researchers from a wide range of backgrounds * the book has a large potential market amongst libraries and undergraduates and postgraduates in tropical and temperate colleges and universities that offer courses in land use subjects * extensively referenced throughout
