Agroforestry systems can be considered as sustainability concept. They are able to provide ecological, economical and sociological benefit. In order help policy makers stakeholder decide what action should taken make agroforestry sustainable, the identification of status is needed. This study aimed evaluate in Timor Island, one islands Nusa Tenggara Timur Province, eastern Indonesia. The data w...

Successful extension of agroforestry to areas of the semi-arid tropics where deep reserves of water exist requires that the tree species be complementary to the associated crops in their use of water within the crop rooting zone. However, it is difficult to identify trees suitable for dryland agroforestry because most existing techniques for determining water uptake by roots cannot distinguish ...

Agroforstsysteme sind prägende Elemente der europäischen Kulturlandscha‰ [McAdam and McEvoy, 2009]. Sie liefern mannigfaltige Ökosystemdienstleistungen und sind zur gleichen Zeit ökologisch sinnvoll und auch ökonomisch pro€tabel [Jose, 2009; Bjorklund et al., 2013]. Ökosystemdienstleistungen in Agroforstsystemen wurden jedoch bis dato noch nicht umfassend erforscht und auch die Aussagekra‰ der ...

Agricultural development projects frequently promote new crop production technologies for adoption at scale on the basis of research and pilot studies in a limited number of contexts. The performance of these production technologies is often variable and dependent on context. Using an example from the Agroforestry for Food Security Project in Malawi, that promoted agroforestry technologies for ...

Despite improvements in the use of soil conservation practices, crop rotation and nutrient management programs, significant concern still exists regarding soil erosion and nutrient losses in runoff from row crop production. In the US, states are required to implement water quality standards based on USEPA guidelines or other scientifically defensible methods (Ice and Binkley, 2003). Agroforestr...

The study analysed farmers’ perception of effects of gum Arabic agroforestry on livelihoods in the Sahelian zone of Borno state, Nigeria. Data for the study were obtained mainly through primary sources. Multi stage, purposive and random sampling techniques were employed to select 321 respondents that was used for this study. The study revealed that the most important (30.25%) farm information b...