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Alain Atangana - Tropical Agroforestry - 9789400777224 - V9789400777224
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Tropical Agroforestry

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Description for Tropical Agroforestry Hardback. Tropical Agroforestry Num Pages: 406 pages, 80 black & white illustrations, 27 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: TVQ; TVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 241 x 21. Weight in Grams: 694.
Agroforestry is recognized as a sustainable land-use management in the tropics, as it provides environmental-friendly ecosystems; it also provides people with their every day need for food and cash. Since the recognition of agroforestry as a science, curricula have been developed for agroforestry programs for undergraduate and graduate trainings in Universities. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop and make available educational material. This textbook strives to provide up-to-date information on tropical agroforestry to serve as educational material in the tropical context. The authoritative textbook of Nair (1993) on agroforestry was published 18 years ago, and before the advent ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Springer
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
693g
Number of Pages
380
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789400777224
SKU
V9789400777224
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Alain Atangana
Alain R. Atangana received a Ph. D. degree in forest genetics from Universite Laval, Canada. He researched participatory domestication of high-value multipurpose trees of the humid tropics of Africa using agroforestry techniques for more than ten years. He also investigated rooting ability in priority tree species for domestication using leafy stem cuttings. Alain has published in eleven peer-reviewed journals, including ... Read more

Reviews for Tropical Agroforestry
From the book reviews: Atangana (Univ. of Alberta, Canada), along with two colleagues from Canada and one from Cameroon, have done an excellent job of presenting the basic ideas and supporting them with examples from throughout the tropics. ... the book is an important resource because of its clear presentation and broad coverage. Summing Up: Highly ... Read more

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