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Agroforestry Systems in India: Livelihood Security & Ecosystem Services

Agroforestry, the word coined in early seventies, has made its place in all the developed and the developing countries of the world and is now recognized as an important approach to ensuring food security and rebuilding resilient rural environments. India has been an all-time leader in agroforestry....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Dagar, Jagdish Chander (Editor ), Singh, Anil Kumar (Editor ), Arunachalam, Ayyanadar (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edición:1st ed. 2014.
Colección:Advances in Agroforestry, 10
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Soil conservation and ecosystem stability: Natural resource management through agroforestry in the northwestern Himalayan region
  • 3. From shifting cultivation to integrating farming: Experience of agroforestry development in the northeastern Himalayan region
  • 4. Agroforestry inroads into the traditional two-crop system heartlands of the Indo-Gangetic plains
  • 5. Agroforestry as a strategy for livelihood security in the rainfed areas: experiences and expectations
  • 6. Livelihood improvements and climate-change adaptations through agroforestry in hot arid environments
  • 7. Agroforestry: A way forward for sustaining fragile coastal and island agro-ecosystems
  • 8. Agroforestry for wasteland rehabilitation: mined, ravine and degraded watershed areas
  • 9. Greening salty and waterlogged lands through agroforestry systems for livelihood security and better environment
  • 10. Wetland based agroforestry systems: balancing between carbon sink and source
  • 11. Agroforestry for ecosystem services and mitigation of climate change
  • 12. Agroforestry policy issues and challenges
  • 13. Synthesis.