Slash-and-mulch : Exploring the role of shrub-based agroforestry systems for smallholder farmers in the Sahel
Rethinking Eucalyptus globulus Labill. Based Land Use Systems in Smallholder Farmers Livelihoods: A Case of Kolobo Water...
Published in Ekológia (Bratislava)
Despite their restriction, smallholder farmers have been continuing growing Eucalyptus globulus in the cultivated land in the central highland of Ethiopia. Literature has shown controversial issues against E. globulus. Therefore, the objective of the study was to investigate the compatibility of E. globulus in the smallholder farmers’ land use syst...
Farming with trees: a balancing act in the shade
The smallholder agriculture sector in East Africa is the dominant economic and social activity for millions of farm households who are often resource-poor, food-insecure and most vulnerable to climate change. In this region, population pressure has led to shorter fallow periods or continuous cropping even on hillslopes causing erosion and leading t...
Addressing Gender in Climate-Smart Smallholder Agriculture
This brief focuses on the constraints that women face to more equitable participation in smallholder carbon and climatesmart initiatives. It highlights the important role that a flexible learning approach plays in advancing equity goals, and offers recommendations for concrete actions that can empower both women and men
History and spatial complexity of deforestation and logging in small private forests
Despite awareness of the importance of taking historical factors into account to understand drivers of present biodiversity, few studies have considered long-term forest historical data because of the difficulty involved in reconstructing forest management history. Our aim was to trace the management history of small private forests, which are the ...
Costs of protable sawmilling timbers from the acacia woodlands of western Queensland, Australia
Published in Small-scale Forest Economics, Management and Policy
Portable sawmilling trials with Acacia aneura (mulga) and A. cambagei (gidgee) have been undertaken to estimate the private landholder costs associated with small-scale timber production from woodlands in western Queensland, Australia. A time study of harvesting and milling operations facilitated estimation of landholder labour input requirements. ...
Stand basal area as an index of tree competitiveness in timber intercropping
Published in Agroforestry Systems
To derive optimal benefits from intercropping timber, farmers should make important initial decisions on tree species and planting density with a good understanding of their tradeoffs. Complex and data-intensive models used by researchers should be supplemented with simpler models based on easily measured parameters and easily understood competitio...
Economic analysis of industrial agroforestry: poplar (Populus deltoides) in Uttar Pradesh (India)
Published in Agroforestry Systems
To meet raw material requirements, Wimco, the biggest manufacturer of matches in India, has been promoting poplar-based agroforestry through an agroforestry project since 1984 approved by the National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development (NABARD) in the northern region of India. This study aims at evaluating the performance of poplar-based a...
Aboveground and belowground competition between intercropped cabbage and young Eucalyptus torelliana
Published in Agroforestry Systems
An expanding market for planted timber in the Philippines is providing a strong incentive for upland farmers to incorporate trees into their farming systems. Farmers often intercrop young timber species with well-fertilized annuals in expectation that inter- species competition for nutrients and light will be minimal while the trees are small, and ...
Het dorpsbossenproject in Burkina Faso : resultaten en toekomstverwachtingen in 1985
