Agroforestry as popular science: A land user perspective for research and design in rural landscapes

This document contains three sections:

1. Problems and Context;
2. A Land User Perspective for Agroforestry research and action programs; and,
3. Who will do this? How? Where?

Each section contains topics on:

1. The richness of agroforestry practices and experiments; The ambitious promise of agroforestry research and development programs; The poverty of imagination and practical results emerging from experimental initiatives; The threat of oversimplification and homogenization of landscape; and, The challenge of reconciling formal agroforestry science with popular science to address the needs, aspirations and concerns of rural people;
2. Multiple uses of land, plants and their products; Multiple users of land, plants, products, rights, responsibilities; Sliding scale of analysis, focus on landscape, eco-opportunism; Co-evolution of land and people, change over time, past/future; Indigenous knowledge and practice, capacity for innovation; and, Land users as researchers, terms of participation;
3. The potential role of ecologists and social scientists; New ways of working in research and development institutions; and, New institutions for agroforestry as popular science.

13 pp.