Agroforestry Flashcards
1
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EFFECTS OF GLOBAL WARMING
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- Global food crises
- Scarcity of safe drinking water
- Death from mudslides
- War over resources
2
Q
Classification of agroforestry
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Agrisilviculture
Silvofishery
AGROSILVOPASTORAL
Apiculture
3
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Agroforestry Definition
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Agroforestry is a collective name for land-use systems in which woody perennials (trees, shrubs, etc.) are grown in association with herbaceous plants (crops, pastures) and/or livestock in a spatial arrangement, a rotation or both, and in which there are both ecological and economic interactions between the tree and non-tree components of the system.
Main Points
➢Land use system
➢Deliberate cultivation; trees, crops, animals etc
➢Same piece of land
➢Ecological and economic benefit
