Agroforestry - The Future of Global Land Use

From the reviews: This book is derived from the 2nd World Agroforestry Congress, held in Kenya in 2009. Each of its three sections provides a different perspective on agroforestry. the synthesis of recent information is not duplicated in typical journal articles and represents a significant contribution to the understanding of agroforestry today. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. (B. D. Orr, Choice, Vol. 50 (11), July, 2013) The book is well written, beautifully produced and contains a wealth of information on agroforestry today. All the chapters are of high quality, containing detailed, state-of-the-art, up-to-date information on the different topics of interest to a broader, multidisciplinary audience. It is of interest to anyone engaged in the practice of agroforestry, forestry or agriculture. I recommend it to both undergraduates and postgraduate students of agroforestry, forestry, agriculture, ecology orbiology, and that a copy of the book is purchased for institutional libraries. (Zewge Teklehaimanot, Frontiers of Biogeography, Vol. 5 (3), 2013)

Preface.- List of Authors.- List of Reviewers.- Section I. INTRODUCTION.- Keynote Presentations at WCA2.- Agroforestry, climate change, and habitat protection.- Agroforestry for an ever-green revolution Environmental resilience and agroforestry.- Climate change and agroforestry.- Agroforestry and the transition to the future.- Agroforestry and the future of global land use.- Section II. GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES Based on WCA2 Symposia.- Climate-change mitigation: A low-hanging fruit of agroforestry.- Segregate or integrate for multifunctionality: landscape agroforestry involving rubber in Indonesia and China.- Integrating climate change adaptation and mitigation through agroforestry and ecosystem conservation.- High-carbon-stock rural development pathways in Asia and Africa: Improved land management for climate change mitigation.- Tree domestication in agroforestry: Progress in the second decade (20032012).- Policy support for large-scale adoption of agroforestry practices: Experience from Africa and Asia.- Multifunctional Agriculture and opportunities for agroforestry Implications of IAASTD.- Section III. REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES.- The future of temperate agroforestry in the United States.- Agroforestry research and development in Canada.- Past, present, and future of agroforestry in Europe.- Agroforestry for mine-land reclamation in Germany: Capitalizing on carbon sequestration and bioenergy production.- The Satoyama landscape of Japan: The future of an indigenous agricultural system in an industrialized society.- South Asian agroforestry: traditions, transformations, and prospects.- Agroforestry in the Amazon region: A pathway for balancing conservation and development.- Mainstreaming agroforestry in Latin America.- Land health surveillance: Mapping soil carbon in Kenyan rangelands.- Gender and agroforestry in Africa: Who benefits? An African perspective.- Incentive mechanisms for smallholder agroforestry: Opportunities and challenges in the Philippines.- Agroforestry The Way Forward.- Subject Index.