Tree-Crop Interactions: Agroforestry in a Changing Climate

by Julia Wilson, Chin K. Ong, Colin R. Black, et al.

Book Overview

Agroforestry, a land-use management system where crops and trees are cultivated side by side, is widely recognized as an important intervention to enhance food security in some of the world's poorest regions; of vital importance currently, it also has vast potential as a method of sequestering carbon and mitigating climate change. Including four new chapters, this new edition provides an important update on tree-crop interactions over the last two decades, with an increased focus on the buffering capacity of agroforestry against climatic extremes and how crops that are potentially susceptible to climate change might benefit from the presence of shade trees. It reviews new advances in the relationship between climate change adaptation, rural development and climate vulnerability, with a spotlight on the more complex multi-strata agroforestry systems typical of the humid tropics. A vital resource for researchers and practitioners of forestry and agriculture, the book concludes with a detailed and practical analysis of the challenges of ongoing climatic change for tropical agroforestry systems. Book jacket.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780645112
• ISBN13: 9781780645117
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Cabi
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 2.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 10.8"