Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Agroforestry Research Developments: Anecdotal to Modern Science
JC Dagar and JC Tewari, Ex-ADG (Natural Resource Management Division, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Krishi Anusandhan Bhavan-II, Pusa New Delhi, India, and others)
Chapter 2. Agroforestry: Potentials for Rehabilitation of Degraded Lands, Constraints and the Way Forward
JC Dagar and SR Gupta, Former ADG (Natural Resources Management Division, Krishi Anusandhan Bhawan-II, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, India, and others)
Chapter 3. Agroforestry for Crop Diversification and Carbon Sequestration
Baljit Singh, Navneet Kaur, RIS Gill, and JC Dagar (Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India, and others)
Chapter 4. Advances in Agroforestry Research toward Sustainable Soil Quality for Increased Food Production and Food Security
SK Dhyani and Rajendra Prasad (ICAR-Natural Resource Management Division, New Delhi, India, and others)
Chapter 5. Relating Sediment and Runoff Yield on Water Quality in Semiarid Mediterranean Agroforestry Watershed: A Case Study
Carmen RocĂo RodrĂguez Pleguezuelo, VĂctor Hugo Durán Zuazo, JosĂ© RamĂłn Francia MartĂnez (Earth and Life Institute/ Environmental Sciences, UniversitĂ© Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium, and others)
Chapter 6. Traditional Agroforestry System in Indian Cold Arid Zone: Case Study of a Village Located near Leh, Ladakh
JC Tewari, MS Raghuvanshi, Kamlesh Pareek, Jigmat Stanzin, Ram Partap, and JC Dagar (ICAR- Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Jodhpur, India, and others)
Chapter 7. Dryland Tropical Homegarden Agroforestry for Conservation of Plant Species Diversity
Hintsa Muruts and Emiru Birhane (College of Dryland Agriculture and Natural Resources, Mekelle University, Ethiopia)
Chapter 8. Enhancing Environmental Services of Salt-affected Lands through Agroforestry
SR Gupta and JC Dagar (Department of Botany, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India, and others)
Chapter 9. Silvopastoral Agroforestry Systems: Lifeline for Dry Regions
ML Soni, V Subbulakshmi, ND Yadava, JC Tewari, and JC Dagar (Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Regional Research Station, Bikaner , Rajasthan, India, and others)
Chapter 10. Agroforestry for Carbon Sequestration in North Western Himalaya
Archana Verma, J.C. Tewari, Rajesh Kaushal, and Saresh NV (Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Jodhpur, India, and others)
Chapter 11. Agroforestry Research in India: Relevance in Livelihood and Climate Change
Ram Newaj, SB Chavan, Dhiraj Kumar, AR Uthappa, Mahendra Singh, and KB Sridhar (ICAR-Central Agroforestry Research Institute, Jhansi (U.P.), India)
Chapter 12. Mitigation and Adaptation Potential of Agroforestry Systems in India
NH Ravindranath and Priya Joshi (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
Chapter 13. Multi-strata Agroforestry as an Alternative to Slash-and-Burn Farming in the Peruvian Amazon
Bohdan Lojka, LudvikBortl, Rita Riva Ruiz, Jan Banout, Jana Lojkova, Zbynek Polesny, Daniel Preininger, Julio Ugarte Guerra, and VladimĂr Verner (Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamycka, Prague – Suchdol, Czech Republic, and others)
Chapter 14. Agroforestry: An Alternate Sustainable Land Use and Climate Change Mitigation Option for the Farmers of Central India
SD Upadhyaya and Aashutosh Sharma, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya (Jabalpur, India, and others)
Chapter 15. Traditional Grazing Systems in the North of Portugal: A Social, Economic and Environmental Approach
Filipa Torres-Manso, Alexandra Marta-Costa, LuĂs TibĂ©rio, Rui Pinto (Department of Forest and Landscape; Centre for Transdisciplinary Development Studies; University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro. Quinta de Prados, Vila Real, Portugal, and others)
Chapter 16. Recent Advances in Pasture-based Agroforestry Research
Sunil Kumar and Inder Dev (Principal Scientist (Agronomy) & Head, Crop Production Division, ICAR-Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi (UP), India, and others)
Chapter 17. Woody Perennials in Agroforestry: Eco-friendly Resource for Ruminant Nutrition
Sultan Singh and SS Kundu (Indian Grassland and Fodder Research institute, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India, and others)
Chapter 18. Moringa oleifera: A Potential Agroforestry Tree that Can Meet the Nutritional Requirements of Rural People
Sateesh Suthari and MNV Prasad (Department of Plant Sciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana, India)
Chapter 19. The Importance of Acacia koaia in Agroforestry of Hawaii
Kazue Ishihara, Daniel Adamski, Cliff Morden, and Dulal Borthakur (University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA)
Chapter 20. Industrial Agroforestry: A Successful Value Chain Model in Tamil Nadu, India
KT Parthiban (Forest College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Mettupalayam, Tamil Nadu, India)
Chapter 21. System Approach for Enhancing Synergy between Farmers and Industries in Agroforestry
KD Singh (Academy of Forests & Environmental Sciences, DFE Complex Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India)
Chapter 22. Social-ecological Resilience, Adaptive Governance, and Agroforestry in a World of Uncertainty
Kofi Akamani (Department of Forestry, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA)
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