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11^th North American Agroforestry Conference
Agroforestry Comes of Age: Putting Science into Practice
First Announcement and Call for Papers

The Flood Tolerance Laboratory located at the University of Missouri Horticulture and Agroforestry Center is o­ne of o­nly a few in the nation and provides a unique field laboratory for studying the response of plant species to the periodic flooding common in Midwestern floodplains. (Photo courtesy of UMCA.)

The 11^th North American Agroforestry Conference of the Association for Temperate Agroforestry (AFTA) will be held May 31 – June 3, 2009 at the Stoney Creek Inn and Conference Center located in Columbia, Missouri. The conference will be hosted by the University of Missouri Center for Agroforestry (UMCA). Please visit the UMCA website www.centerforagroforestry.org for more information about the conference and field tours, and to find the guidelines for submitting abstracts for your oral and poster presentations at the conference.

2^nd World Congress of Agroforestry
Agroforestry - The Future of Global Land Use

The 2^nd World Congress of Agroforestry will be held during August 23 - 28, 2009 in Nairobi, Kenya. It will be organized by ICRAF (World Agroforestry Centre) at the conference facilities of UNEP (UN Environment Programme). Please see the Congress website: http://worldagroforestry.org/wca2009/ for details.

Read the Latest Temperate Agroforester

Cedar row snow fence with pheasants in southern Minnesota. (Photo courtesy of Univ. of Minnesota Extension)

The March issue of the Temperate Agroforester is now available for o­nline viewing. Well, it looks like winter might finally be turning into spring. Tree planting will be starting really soon. After all the snow we had, I can hardly wait. This issue of the Temperate Agroforester has two articles. The first is o­n an experimental use of sorghum-Sudan grass as a killed cover crop for tree plantings. The other article is o­n living snow fences in Southern Minnesota. Both should be good reads. I hope you enjoy this issue and have a fun (and safe) tree planting season. --- The editor.

Toward Agroforestry Design: An Ecological Approach Edited by Shibu Jose and Andrew Gordon Springer, Advances in Agroforestry Series, Volume 4 2008, 314 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4020-6571-2, Hardcover

Ecological Basis of Agroforestry Daizy R. Batish, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India; Ravinder K. Kohli, Panjab University; Shibu Jose, University of Florida, Gainesville; Harminder P. Singh, Panjab University CRC Press, 2007, 400 pp., ISBN 10: 1420043277, Hardback

The Agroforester’s Bookshop is pleased to announce the addition of two new books. Toward Agroforestry Design is an important reference for anyone interested in exploring or managing the physiological and ecological processes which underlie resource allocation and plant growth in agroforestry systems. Ecological Basis of Agroforestry covers the practice of agroforestry in temperate and tropical regions and is applicable worldwide.

Remember that AFTA members may order, at discount, any book from the publisher catalogs linked on the Agroforester's Bookshop website.  Contact sales [at] aftaweb.org with the publisher, title and ISBN.