@inbook{536,
  keywords = {soil conservation, agroforestry},
  author = {U.S. National Research Council, Committee on Selected Biological Problems in the Humid Tropics},
  title = {Agriculture in the humid tropics},
  abstract = {<p>Focused on ecological considerations in tropical areas, this chapter covers the following topics:</p><ul><li>Agriculture as rearrangement of the ecosystem;</li><li>Productivity of tropical agricultural systems;</li><li>Constraints to shifting cultivation;</li><li>Cultivated land as an ecosystem;</li><li>Humid tropical agriculture as vegeculture/polyculture;</li><li>Animal products;</li><li>Export crops;</li><li>Linkages between tropical and temperate zones;</li><li>Nutrition in the humid tropics;</li><li>Stability of tropical agricultural systems;</li><li>Improving plants of the humid tropics;</li><li>Research needs; and</li><li>Agriculture and conservation.</li></ul>},
  year = {1982},
  journal = {Ecological aspects of development in the humid tropics},
  pages = {93-156},
  month = {01/1982},
  publisher = {National Academy Press},
  address = {Washington, DC},
  isbn = {0-309-03235-0},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.17226/19533},
  note = {Chapter 5},
  language = {English},
}