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Development and Agroforestry: Scaling up the impacts of research
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2002-01-01
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Agriculturalists have been benefiting from the range of products and services that trees can supply for thousands of years. Through the intergration of trees into agricultural landscapes, farmers and land users at all levels can enjoy diversified production, and a range of social, economic, and environmental benefits. Agroforestry is the scientific application of this widespread body of knowledge. This stimulating collection explores the experiences of researchers and small-scale farmers undertaking agroforestry development projects around the globe, and addresses the question of how local, small-scale development successes can be 'scaled up' to create wider, long-term benefits.Each of the contributions offers insights into important wider debates. The relationship between theory and practice, the proper role of research in development, constraints on 'scaling up' local successes, the nature of human motivation for risk-taking and learning, the ways in which individuals and communities respond to technical innovation, are all critically explored here. Contributors stress the importance of experimenting with a range of possible agroforestry techniques and approaches, in conjunction with the farming communities that will adopt or reject these methods over time.
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Preface; Realising the potential of agroforestry: integrating research and development to achieve greater impact; Participatory design of agroforestry systems: developing farmer participatory research methods in Mexico; Participatory domestication of agroforestry trees: an example from the Peruvian Amazon; Facilitating the wider use of agroforestry for development in Southern Africa; Scaling up participatory agroforestry extension in Kenya: from pilot projects to extension policy; More effective natural resource management through democratically elected, decentralised government structures in Uganda; On-farm testing and dissemination of agroforestry among slash and-burn farmers in Nagaland, India; Scaling up the use of fodder shrubs in central Kenya; The Landcare experience in the Philippines: technical and institutional innovations for conservation farming; Scaling up adoption and impact of agroforestry technologies: experiences from western Kenya; Scaling up the benefits of agroforestry research: lessons learned and research challenges
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Development in Practice Readers
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978-0-85598-464-9