Agroforestry

Agroforestry plays a vital role in the biological build up of nutrients and sustaining soil fertility for growing crops and getting higher yields for livelihood security. An experiment on nutrient dynamics was conducted from the year 2006 to 2016 at Main Agricultural Research Station, University of...

Crop-livestock-forest (CLFi) and crop-livestock (CLi) systems are among the most recent agricultural developments in Brazil, and aligned with the principles of cleaner production. Such integrated systems can provide at least three types of product from the same land area over a defined period. This...

As ecosystem service assessments increasingly contribute to decisions about managing Earth's lands and waters, there is a growing need to understand the diverse ways that people use and value landscapes. However, these assessments rarely incorporate the value of landscapes to communities with...

Chocolate consumption has been on an upward slope for decades and demand shows no sign of slowing. But obtaining higher yields represents a great...

Implemented work and achievements for the period October 2015 to March 2016 for the Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation (Africa RISING) project in West Africa (Ghana and Mali) are reported in this paper. For Mali, the report focuses on research results related to...

5 - 9 November 2018 - Valdivia

Agroforestry can be used to improve the productivity of staple food crops by improving soil fertility and promoting agroecosystem function. The domestication of agroforestry trees producing marketable products then intensifies the agroforestry system and leads to marketing, trade and business...

Agroforestry plays a vital role in the biological build up of nutrients and sustaining soil fertility for growing crops and getting higher yields for livelihood security. An experiment on nutrient dynamics was conducted from the year 2006 to 2016 at Main Agricultural Research Station, University of...