Papers presented at the International Conference on Amazonian Agriculture and Land Use Research, Cali, Colombia, April 16-18, 1980 (1st: 1980: Centro Internacional de Agricultural Tropical)
Sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation [and others]
N2 - This paper explores the potentials for agroforestry in the Amazon Basin. Agroforestry systems are "sustainable land management systems that combine the production of crops including tree crops, forest plants and/or animals simultaneously or sequentially on the same unit of land, applying management practices that are compatible with the cultural practices of the local population." Agroforestry is a term that covers an enormous range of land uses at all scales of tenure and investment, ranging from subsistence to plantation farming, and from dozens of species to only two or three. Agroforestry usually involves multiple canopies, either in space or time, and more than one harvestable stratum. (author) PB - Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical PP - Cali, Colombia PY - 1982 SN - 84-89206-13-9 SP - 339 EP - 351 ST - Agroforestry in the Amazon basin T2 - Amazonia: Agriculture and land use research T3 - CIAT series no. 03E-3(82) TI - Agroforestry in the Amazon basin: Practice, theory and limits of a promising land use UR - http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16754729 ER -