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(Asociación Civil para la Investigación y Desarrollo Forestal) basados en Cajamarca, Perú, mantienen un banco de semillas, y hacen proyectos de forestacion, silvicultura, y agroforesteria. Ver su catálogo de semillas en venta.
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Homepage with journal subscription information, free publications, services, tree seedlings information, previous journal editions, and other agroforestry-related information.
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This website contains a table of 24 agroforestry tree species and their uses, prefered climate conditions, tolerances, and sizes.
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This World Agroforestry Centre searchable database includes common name and botanic name databases for agroforestry tree species, as well as a glossary of terms.
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This article is a case study of social and economic factors involved in land use (related to soils), social forestry, and agroforestry in the Dominican Republic
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This 1996 technical note from the US Department of Agriculture's Natural Resource Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS) gives an introduction to the variety of agroforestry practices that can be useful for sustained temperate agricultural systems. Also provided are links to downloadable documents describing specific agroforestry practices in more detail.
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This website contains a list of on-line fact sheets on agroforestry techniques for the Pacific region.
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This distance learning module from Cornell University (USA) defines homegardens, compound farms, and complex agroforests with brief examples from Africa, the Pacific Islands, South-east Asia, South Asia, and the American tropics. The site also contains photos and references.
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This article published in People and Plants Online, discusses a case study of a two year sesbania improved fallow project in Zambia, and the issue of communication in development projects.
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This article discusses agroforestry and includes definitions of the major types of agroforestry practices, a section on business concens, and references for further information.
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The Agroforestry Research Trust is a non-profit making charity, registered in England, which researches temperate agroforestry and all aspects of plant crops, and their uses, with a focus on tree, shrub and perennial crops. The site also contains more information about temperate agroforestry, a publications list, information about their journal, and the seeds and plants they sell.
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This site has links to information on an agroforestry approach for rehabilitating abandoned pasture land in the Brazilian Amazon.
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Printed three times a year, this international subscription based journal publishes research and review papers on biophysical and/or socioeconomic aspects of agroforestry. It is available on-line and in print.
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This article presents some examples of agroforestry systems from Central America, and discusses how and why small farmers and communities use these systems.
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This page provides a general overview of a WWF agroforestry project in Maraba, Brazil.
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A brief on-line article on the use of bamboos in agroforestry, including erosion control barriers and soil conservation. There are several links to other Web resources on bamboo.
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La página inicial del Banco de Semillas Forestales de BSF/CATIE (Costa Rica) enlace a su catálogo, publicaciones, y contactos.
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This ICRAF online site contains a database of botanic nomenclature for agroforestry trees. It can be searched or browsed by botanic and common names.
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An Agropolis International homepage with links to an intercropping database, organization, publications, and other activities.
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This article in the Overstory (an online journal) discusses carbon sequestration in soils and vegetation. It includes a section on using agroforestry to sequester carbon
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This brief paper discusses a three year study conducted by the Crops Research Institute of Kerala, India, looking at interactions between species and their effect on crop yield and soil properties in a cassava agroforestry system.
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This on-line book in pdf format can be downloaded in its entirety (481 pages) or by sections. It provides information on riparian forest buffers and instructions for setting them up.
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Part of the World Agroforestry Centre's lecture note series published in 2000, this document discusses complex agroforests. Also available in this database is an accompanying slide show of the same title. (PDF)
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This is a paper on using established plantations to accelerate natural regeneration of tropical forests.
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This section of the proceedings of a workshop held in Ibadan, Nigeria, in 1981 deals with crop mixtures in traditional systems.
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DSV is German plant breeding company. Seeds for oil crops, legumes, forage grasses, cereals, catch crops, green manures, and turf grasses can be ordered by mail from this organization. Use this page to browse briefly annotated lists of available species in English.
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This US based non-profit organization sells seeds and works on two major projects. CRESS (Conservation and Regional Exchanged by Seed Savers) collects and preserves cultivated food plants, and the Native Seeds Project focuses on preserving the oldest domesticated plants from the Eastern US, such as beans and corn. The site contains a seed list, and instructions for ordering by mail.
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This is an editorial published in an online publication called People and Plants. It includes an article by Roger R.B. Leakey, a list of common and latin names for plants Leakey calls "Cinderella species", and several letters to the editor from April and May 1999.
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A forum for communication between European organisations, researchers, EU institutions and others concerned with (sub-)tropical forest research.
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Future Horizons: Recent Literature in Sustainable Agriculture. This site presents reviews of recent sustainable agriculture literature.
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A site that leads to over 75 concise fact sheets of agroforestry species that can be used for a variety of purposes including green manure, fodder, soil and water conservation, alley cropping, live fencing, land rehabilitation, fallow management and general soil fertility improvement.
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This paper, based on the author's MSc thesis, discusses a study of farmer perceptions of agroforestry adoption for soil erosion control.
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Several paper and poster abstracts on tropical Agriculture
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This report defines analog forestry and describes the Canadian International Development Agency Analog Forestry program.
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agroforester.com sponsored price list for a wide selection of over 60 tree species with their botanical names, common names, and environmental requirements information.
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Hojas informativas de Winrock sobre una variedad de especies útiles para agroforestería.
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This is a searchable homepage for ICRISAT, an international research organization supported by CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research), whose purpose is to help developing countries in the semi-arid tropics increase crop productivity, improve food security, reduce poverty, and protect the environment. It also provides news, publications, and links to some of its partner organizations.
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A quick guide to Flemingia macrophylla, a useful nitrogen fixing tree with information on its botany, ecology, weed control, and fodder value
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Published by the World Agroforestry Centre in 1999, this manual discusses ways to use agroforestry and assisted natural regeneration to regenerate secondary forests from Imperata grasslands.
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This article in The Overstory (an online publication) defines and discusses understory crops and their role in agroforestry.
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This is a searchable homepage for IUFRO (International Union of Forest Research Organizations). IUFRO is a network of forest scientists who work to promote international cooperation on forestry and forest product research. The site provides links to regional offices, publications, newsletters, other organizations, events, and news.
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El Programa Jardines Forestales es un sistema agroforestal orgánico innovador diseñado especialmente para ayudar a restaurar tierras altas degradadas.
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The MOIST Group at Cornell University site. Karen Lowell's overview of her San Juan Sur Phosphorus Leaching Study
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This University of Minnesota (USA) extension article describes living snow fences and their uses. It also gives basic information on how to build one. A copy of the article can be purchased online.
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This is a searchable homepage for The Austrailian Master TreeGrower Program. The program provides an 8 week educational package for landowner involved in the development of farm forestry in Australia. It includes a course list, events announcements, links to related resources, guides for farmers, and reports of program activities to day.
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The MBRLC Products Page lists agroforestry and vegetable seeds that can be ordered from the Mindanao Baptist Rural Life Center in the Philippines. Prices are in US dollars or Philippine pesos
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This NAC (US National Agroforesty Center) site provides links to free brochures, publications, and periodicals. Subjects covered include windbreaks, living snow fences, silvopasture systems, carbon sequestration, and more. Several documents are also available in Spanish.
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This site contains a brief list of videos and slides available for sale from NAC, the US National Agroforestry Center. Subjects covered include agroforestry, tree planting, wastewater management, windbreaks, alley cropping, and silvopasture.
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The New Forests Project focuses on deforestation and reforestation. Their homepage is available in English and contains some Spanish and French resources, and includes newsletters, and information on their seed and education programs.
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A description of the genus Leucaena and its uses as fodder, human food, and green manure. Describes interspecific hybridization in Leucaena and the uses of the hybrids. With references.
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An overview of Inga edulis: a tree for acid soils in the humid tropics. Its botany, distribution and ecology, and its uses and limitations, are discussed.
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Millions of people living in rural India depend on agro-forestry systems for food, fodder, fuelwood, medicine, construction materials, cash income, and raw materials for small-scale rural industries. Agro-forestry practices also permit the productive use of marginal lands that might otherwise be unsuitable for agricultural cultivation because of infertility or vulnerability to soil erosion.
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A Brazilian company providing certified and inspected seeds for green manuring cover crops and pastures, Pirai was started in 1973. Most of this site is in Portuguese, but for an English description click on "Empresa" and then on the American flag.
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proteção de florestas atráves do uso de sistemas de manejo por pequenos agricultores
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Esta página da una lista de los especies agroforestales disponibles de Proyecto Nuevos Bosques.
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This 23 page Lecture Note (pdf format) published by the World Agroforestry Centre in 2000, accompanies a slide show of the same name also available in this database. It describes agroforestry practices used to reclaim land dominated by Imperata grasses.
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Desde esta página uno puede ubicar las tres revistas del CATIE, Agroforestería en las Américas, Manejo Integrado de Plagas y Agroecología, y Revista Forestal Centro Americana. Los resumenes de artículos son disponibles a todo público. Para ver los artículos completos es necesario suscribirse a la revista relevante.
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This site which can also be reached from our homepage is the Worldwide Soil Health Portal's guide to seed sources for a variety of planting material including cover crops and green manures, agroforestry species, microsymbionts and more.
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This Bolivian company has information about productive pastures and forages for tropics and highlands, and also offers a variety of forage and cover crop seed for sale.
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The Overstory is a free on-line newsletter for people working with sustainable forestry, agroforestry, and farming in the tropics and subtropics. It is hosted by agroforester.com
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Published in 1990 in Sustainable Farming, this article discusses using agroforestry trees to decrease the wind erosion which decreases soil and water quality.
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This on-line slide show was developed by the University of Maryland's Wye Research and Education Center (USA) and Maryland Cooperative Extension. It contains photos and information on using riparian buffers for water conservation in the Northeastern United States.
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This on-line slide show published in 2000 by the World Agroforestry Centre contains 25 slides illustrating complex agroforests in Indonesia. It accompanies a Lecture Note of the same name, also available in this database.
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This on-line slide show published by ICRAF contains 33 slides on Imperata grassland reclamation. It was developed with a Lecture Note of the same title also available through this database.
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This on-line slide show was developed by the World Agroforestry Centre in 2000 and accompanies a Lecture Note with the same title also available through this database. The 26 slides discuss agroforestry as a tool for soil and water conservation.
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Developed by the Mindanao Baptist Rural Life Center (MBRLC), SALT is a diversified agroforestry farming system that adequately controls soil erosion while helping restore soil structure and fertility. A fully-illustrated manual on how to farm the hilly land without losing the topsoil. Includes history of the system.
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This 16 page Lecture Note was published by the World Agroforestry Centre in 2000 and can be downloaded in pdf format. It discusses agroforestry as a tool for soil and water conservation.
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This FAO Soils Bulletin resulted from a 1991 training course on tillage and residue management in Africa. Its 10 on-line chapters cover erosion control, soil moisture conservation, agroforestry and alley farming, runoff, and conservation tillage.
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Cette sommaire est une definition de foresterie analogue et une description d'un projet foresterie analogue d'Agence canadienne de developpement international.
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This is the home page for the Forest Garden Initiative which is an international agroforestry initiative. It is available in both English and Spanish.
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This article provides a general overview of Agroforestry and links to further information, including sites to order books on agroforestry.
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This page provides background information on trees, forests, agroforestry and related issues. It also contains a variety of more specific information, including a diagram of nitrogen fixation, definitions (with illustrations) of agroforestry terms, and information on mangroves and solar box cookers.
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This is a reference list for agroforestry and silviculture trees that is put out by Communications for a Sustainable Future at the University of Colorado. From this page you can link to most of the listed references.
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This is a FACT Net publication that discusses agroforestry practices for atolls.
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Developed at Cornell University (USA) this information resource page includes descriptions with pictures of a variety of agroforestry and organic agriculture practices. Also included are references and links.
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This paper provides a basic introduction to the concept of agroforestry and describes a variety of specific agroforestry techniques.
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This site reports current developments in land resources, ranging from scientific aspects to conservation, evaluation, management, policy, and role in development planning.
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Professional development Program report. The objectives of this program were to develop extension training curricula emphasizing the paradigm of sustainable agriculture under island eco-systems; and, train extension agents and other field-level agriculture professionals to enable them to help farmers implement sustainable agriculture strategies at the field level in tropical areas of the western region.
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This is a report of a funded project whose research focuses primarily on the ability of the alley cropping technique to provide sufficient nutrients to tree crops, as well as the economic feasibility of the practice for orchards.
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This site has links to 199798 Program Report, grant application information, sustainable agriculture resources, and SARE grant awards for 1997.
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This homepage contains information on World Agroforestry Centre research and development programs in Africa, Latin America, and South East Asia. It also has links to publications and databases related to tropical agroforestry.
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This searchable collection of slides contains images that may be downloaded for free for personal, non-commercial, test, or sample purposes.
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