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Major Agroforestry Systems of the Humid Tropics

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More than one hundred agroforestry systems (particular land-use systems involving integrating production of trees with crops and/or livestock, which are characterized by the environment, plant species and their arrangement, management, and socio-economic functions) have been recorded yet, with about 30 agroforestry practices (distinct arrangements of agroforestry components in space and time). Agroforestry systems and practices are often used simultaneously. Major agroforestry practices or technologies in the humid tropics include homegardens, perennial crop based systems, shifting cultivation, alley cropping, improved fallows and rotational tree fallows. Other agroforestry systems are valued in the humid tropics, including relay cropping, multilayer tree gardens, multipurpose trees on croplands and plantation-crop combinations. Since the mid-90s, the participatory domestication of high-value and multipurpose indigenous forest species using agroforestry techniques has been gaining momentum in the humid tropics.

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  1. Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Alain Atangana & Scott Chang

  2. Institute of Integrative and Systems Biology, Université Laval, 2208 Pavillon C.-E. Marchand, Quebec, G1V 0A6, Canada

    Alain Atangana

  3. Forest and Wood Sciences, Université Laval, Quebec, Québec, Canada

    Damase Khasa

  4. West and Central Africa Regional Program, World Agroforestry Centre, Yaounde, Cameroon

    Ann Degrande

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Atangana, A., Khasa, D., Chang, S., Degrande, A. (2014). Major Agroforestry Systems of the Humid Tropics. In: Tropical Agroforestry. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7723-1_4

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