Edited by Louise Buck, James Lassoie and Erick Fernandes (Cornell University)

CRC Press, 1998, 432 p., ISBN 1566702941

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Reviewed in The Temperate Agroforester, October 2001

    Agroforestry in Sustainable Agricultural Systems examines the environmental and social conditions that affect the roles and performance of trees in field- and forest-based agricultural production systems. Various types of ecological settings for agroforestry are analyzed within temperate and tropical regions. The roles of soil, water, light, nutrient and pest management in mixed, annual, woody perennial and livestock systems are discussed. Important new case studies from around the world offer innovative strategies that have been used successfully in raising forests and tree products o­n a sustainable basis for commercial harvesting and for providing other environmental services in land conservation and watershed management.

Contents

• Nutrient Cycling in Tropical Agroforestry Systems: Myths and Science, P. K. Ramachandran Nair, Roland J. Buresh, Daniel N. Mugendi, and Christopher R. Latt
• Animals and Agroforestry in the Tropics, Alice N. Pell
• Water Management with Hedgerow Agroforestry Systems, Susan J. Riha and Beverly D. McIntyre
• Managing Ground Cover Heterogeneity in Coffee (Coffea arabica L.) Under Managed Tree Shade: From Replicated Plots to Farmer Practice, Charles Staver
• The Science and Practice of Black Walnut Agroforestry in Missouri, U.S.A.: A Temperate Zone Assessment, Harold E. Garrett and Larry S. Harper
• Silvopastoralism: Competition and Facilitation Between Trees, Livestock, and Improved Grass-Clover Pastures o­n Temperate Rainfed Lands, Steven H. Sharrow
• Pest Management in Energy- and Labor-Intensive Agroforestry Systems, Mary Ellen Dix, Badege Bishaw, Sarah W. Workman, Michael R. Barnhart, Ned B. Klopfenstein, and Anne M. Dix
• Clonal Propagation of Multipurpose and Fruit Trees Used in Agroforestry, Kenneth W Mudge and Eric B. Brennan
• Confronting Complexity, Dealing with Difference: Social Context, Content, and Practice in Agroforestry, Dianne Rochelau
• Contemporary Uses of Tree Tenure, John W. Bruce and Louise Fortmann
• A Utilitarian Approach to the Incorporation of Local Knowledge in Agroforestry Research and Extension, Fergus L. Sinclair and Daniel H. Walker
• Trees in Managed Landscapes: Factors in Farmer Decision Making, J. E. Michael Arnold and Peter A. Dewees
• Economic and Environmental Benefits of Agroforestry in Food and Fuelwood Production, David Pimentel and Aaron Wightman
• Domestication of Tropical Trees: From Biology to Economics and Policy, Roger R. B. Leakey and Thomas P. Tomich
• Ethnobotanical Perspectives of Agroforestry, David M. Bates
• Sustainable Mulch-Based Cropping Systems with Trees, Donald C. L. Kass, H. David Thurston, and Kenneth Schlather
• Agro-Forests: Incorporating a Forest Vision in Agroforestry, Genevieve Michon and Hubert de Foresta
• Index