Temperate Agroforestry Systems

by Andrew M. Gordon (Editor), Scott M. Newman (Editor), Brent Coleman (Editor)

Overview

Agroforestry is a land use system that allows for the concurrent production of trees and agricultural crops and/or animals from the same piece of land. It has a rich history of development and has been practised in some parts of the world for more than 6,000 years. In 1997, CABI published the seminal book on this subject, Temperate Agroforestry Systems, which was a break from the norm as almost all agroforestry texts up to that date were only relevant to tropical areas. The book explored the development of temperate agroforestry and agroforestry systems, concentrating on those areas within temperate zones where the greatest advances, adoptions and modifications had taken place up to that time: North and South America, China, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. This second fully-updated and expanded edition includes additional chapters on India and Chile and, as a result of ongoing advances in the field, separate chapters on the US, Canada, the UK and continental Europe. Today's challenges of climate change, population growth and food security, in concert with the ongoing global requirement for the energy and water needed for a resilient agricultural paradigm, can be met through the wide-scale adoption of agroforestry practices, in both tropical regions and temperate zones. The 2nd edition ofTemperate Agroforestry Systems brings together many examples of temperate agroforestry and will make valuable reading for all those working in this area as researchers, practitioners and policy makers. The book is also of importance to students and teachers of agriculture, ecology, environmental studies and forestry in temperate regions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780644851
Publisher:	CABI
Publication date:	04/12/2018
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.62(h) x (d)

About the Author

Professor Steven Newman is a senior natural resource, climate change and climate finance consultant. He has undertaken over 122 major assignments in over 63 countries. The work included managing many multi-million-pound investments in agroforestry and nature-based solutions worldwide leading to the planting of over 10 million trees. He is MD of BioDiversity International Ltd, Visiting Professor in the Agriculture Department Reading Universityand Fellow of the institute of welfare reform. He is part of Abacus Agriculture and is advising UK farms and estates on profitable nut tree agroforestry options. He is co-editor of the leading textbook on "temperate agroforestry systems" now in its second edition.

Table of Contents

1: Temperate Agroforestry: An Overview
2: Agroforestry in Canada and its Role in Farming Systems
3: Temperate Agroforestry in the United States: Current Trends and Future Directions
4: Agroforestry in the United Kingdom
5: Temperate Agroforestry: The European Way
6: Agroforestry in the Indian Himalayan Region: An Overview
7: Temperate Agroforestry in China
8: Agroforestry Systems in Temperate Australia
9: Temperate Agroforestry Systems in New Zealand
10: Novel Agroforestry Systems in Temperate Chile
11: Silvopastoral systems in Patagonia, Argentina
12: Temperate Agroforestry: Key Elements, Current Limits and Opportunities for the Future

Editorial Reviews

"It gives a good starting point for brainstorming new systems for a given region that can draw explicitly on the lessons learned in other temperate regions. In many chapters, the discussions of systems are complex and thorough (e.g. UK, Europe and Indian Himalayan Region). In others, they describe previously unsuggested, novel systems (e.g. Chile) that are just now being developed."

Society of American Foresters Newsletter June 2018 - Kyle Rose

Eight contributions explore the development of temperate agroforestry and agroforestry systems, concentrating on those areas where the greatest advances and modifications have occurred, namely, North America, China, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, the UK, and continental Europe. Topics include silvopastoral systems, sands control engineering, and forest grazing. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

"This book clearly stimulated me to ponder a number of issues. It is a good review of the current practices and ongoing biological research programs in temperate agroforestry. The European and New Zealand chapters in particular show a depth of understanding and synthesis that is outstanding. . .It also provides an entry into regional literature that would otherwise be difficult to obtain. And, for the temperate zone, it is the only movie playing." —Forest Science

"I found this to be a very good introduction to global temperate agroforestry which, for purposes of this book, was meant to be: 'an approach to land-use that incorporates trees into farming systems, and allows for the production of trees and crops or livestock from the same piece of land' (p 1). The book nicely covers this complex topic for North America, New Zealand, Australia, China, Argentina and Europe. An excellent group of prominent authors contributed to the text, writing on specific regions. The editors then developed a valuable 'synthesis and future directions' contribution to conclude the volume. This will be a very useful book for anyone interested in agroforestry."—The Quarterly Review of Biology

"Eight contributions explore the development of temperate agroforestry and agroforestry systems, concentrating on those areas where the greatest advances of modifications have occurred, namely, North America, China, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, the UK, and continental Europe. Topics include silvopastoral systems, sands control engineering, and forest gazing."—SciTech Book News

"The editors of this book have been major contributors to the recent promotion of agroforestry as a land use suitable to temperate North America, and for that they rightly deserve credit. This book is their effort to globalize this process by expanding their focus to other temporate regions. This book will be most useful as a general reference to information on selected topics in Temperate Zone agroforestry, and as an overview for those new to the field." — Henry Gholz, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Vol 102, 2000

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