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1 online resource (431 pages)
ISBN:
9781845931476
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Agroforestry and silvopastoralism are ancient ways of managing forestland that should be encouraged as they increase productivity in the short, medium and long terms (in comparison with forestland), biodiversity (in comparison with farmland) and the sustainability of land (multiproduct system).
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements and Congress information -- Session 1. Silvopastoral systems. Main types and designs -- Main invited Key note -- Traditional and improved silvopastoral systems and their importance in sustainability of livestock farms -- Invited Key notes -- Silvopastoral systems in North-West Europe -- Silvopastoral systems in the Neotropics -- European types of silvopastoral systems in the Mediterranean area: dehesa -- Mediterranean European silvopastoral systems -- Offered papers -- Agroforestry for improving farm smallholdings -- Improved fallows with forage trees for a slash and burn maize system in the Yucatán Peninsula -- The influence of climate and soil type on the "montado" production system -- Silvopastoralism with native tree species in Uruguay -- Classification principles and use of grazed forest stands in the Ukraine -- Traditional silvoarable systems and their evolution in Greece -- Biodiversity and sustainable development in the silvopastoral systems of the Cantabrian mountains -- Goat production system in mountain zones: the case of Peneda's mountain -- Silvopastoralism in Evritania, central Greece -- The effect of duck grazing on cocoa yields in São Tomé island -- Types of land use in the montado (dehesa) production system -- Contribution of silvopastoral systems to land upkeep: differences and determining factors in a French upland region -- From forest grazing to multipurpose shelterbelts in Hungary -- Session 2. Productivity, quality and management of silvopastoral systems -- Main invited Key note -- Silvopasture in south-eastern United States: more than just a new name for an old practice -- Invited Key notes -- Nutritive value of trees and shrubs for ruminants -- Quality of vegetation in silvopastoral systems -- The herbaceous component intemperate silvopastoral systems -- Offered papers.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845930011
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Silvopastoralism and sustainable land management Wallingford [u.a.] : CABI-Publishing, 2005 ISBN 1845930010
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845930011
Additional Edition:
Print version Silvopastoralism and Sustainable Land Management
Language:
English
Subjects:
Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science
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