Agroforestry for Sustainable Agriculture, 9781786762207
Hardcover
This volume reviews the latest research on the role and implementation of main types of agroforestry, the ecosystem services that agroforestry can deliver and techniques for optimising agroforestry practice.

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9781786762207
ISBN-10:178676220X
Series:Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
Author:Dr Ravi Prabhu, Prof. Richard Schultz, Dr Thomas Isenhart, Dr William Beck, Dr Tyler Groh, Dr Morgan Davis, Dr Gary Wyatt, Dr Amanda Sames, Prof. Diomy S. Zamora, Professor María Rosa Mosquera-Losada
Publisher:Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited
Imprint:Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:542
Release Date:31 May 2019
Weight:893g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm x 30mm
About The Author

Dr Ravi Prabhu

Dr María Rosa Mosquera-Losada is Distinguished Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Professor Mosquera-Losada is President of the Spanish Agroforestry Association (AGFE) and a former President of the European Agroforestry Federation (EURAF). She is also Coordinator of the EU-funded Agroforestry Innovation Networks (AFINET) project, a Policy Work Package Leader for the EU project AGFORWARD (Agroforestry that will Advance Rural Development) and Data Knowledge Work Package Leader for the EU project EURAKNOS (Connecting Thematic Networks as Knowledge Reservoirs: towards a European Agricultural Knowledge Innovation Open Source System) and is also co-Chair of the Croplands Working Group of the Global Research Alliance and of the Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture (FAO).Dr Ravi Prabhu is Deputy Director General (Research) at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in Kenya. Dr Prabhu was previously Senior Programme Officer for Forests and Climate Change at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Stephen H. Anderson is the William A. Albrecht Distinguished Professor of Soil and Environmental Sciences in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Missouri, USA. His current areas of research include evaluating soil management effects on soil hydraulic properties, developing X-ray computed tomography and microtomography techniques to assess pore-scale soil properties and processes, and utilizing hydrologic models to evaluate effectiveness of conservation practices at the watershed scale.

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