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Agro-forestry the latest buzz
Source: Seed Daily, Date: , 2009
A new edition of "North American Agroforestry: An Integrated Science
and Practice," published by the American Society of Agronomy adds to
the excitement and builds upon the science. Agroforestry can create
greater economic value, enhance biodiversity, and improve soil, water
and air quality on many sites. Agroforestry is an integrated approach of using the
interactive benefits from combining trees and shrubs with crops and/or
livestock. It combines agricultural and forestry technologies to create more diverse, productive, profitable, healthy and sustainable land-use systems. From large-scale installations of riparian buffers to family-scale
forest farming, agroforestry is a technology that has truly "come of
age." According to the authors, there is a willingness to adopt
agroforestry practices more so than ever before.
Agroforestry provides many opportunities to meet the needs of
landowners and natural resource professionals while keeping the family
farm economically viable and the environment in which we live healthy.
"The American Society of Agronomy is proud to publish this truly
interdisciplinary work that explains the integration of production
agriculture, natural resource management, and forest production
technologies into systems that enhance productivity and natural
resource conservation. I am certain that millions of hectares of land
and millions of people will benefit from the knowledge brought together
in this book," says Marcus M. Alley, president of the American Society
of Agronomy.
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