Integrated into Agroforestry Systems Provides Multiple Benefits for Rural Counties Introduction Mankind survival has been supported by various revolutions (agricultural, industrial etc.) for continuous growth and expansion on Earth. Our natural resources are being exhausted from population increase. Food availability is a necessity that will become harder to obtain. The future will rely on applying technology to support population increase. Utilizing new developing technologies into agroforestry systems
What is agroforestry? Many people do not know what exactly agroforestry is. The answer is simple. Agroforestry is the combination of trees, crops, and/or livestock into a system which focus on the interactions between the components rather than the components themselves (Sharrow 1997). It is mostly practiced in developing countries where its ability to be used to produce several different outputs is critical to the farmers. Agroforestry is not practiced on the same scale that monoculture agriculture
Agroforestry is defined as an integrated approach of using the interactive benefits from combining trees and shrubs with crops and livestock. It combines agricultural and forestry technologies to create more diverse, productive, profitable, healthy and sustainable land-use systems (Umrani et al. 2010). One particular type of agroforestry that would be beneficial if implemented in El Salvador is silvopastoral systems.
production and farmer’s incomes? Thus, this research paper reviews the work on cocoa production in the West African sub region – specifically Ghana – as a biodiversity conservation mechanism and presents recommendations to research gaps related to agroforestry. Background According to Richard Asare, “The West African sub region is host to the world’s main cocoa producing countries, including Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Cameroon and Nigeria” . Through progressive Conversion of forests into cocoa fields, these
What is desertification? Desertification is the procedure through which constructive land turns non-productive as a result of poor land management, climatic changes, and human activities. The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) defines desertification as, “land degradation in arid, and semi-arid areas resulting from various factors including climatic variations and human activities.” Across the globe, desertification affects the subsistence of millions of people, who largely
much because of its silver-green colored leaves that darken with age (World Agroforestry). These characteristics of size and color are very distinguishable from a distance but that is not all that the tree has to offer. The nuts hidden within the leaves only grow up to around two inches in diameter but are still distinguishable. Also, the tree contains small bunches of flowers but these are harder to notice (World Agroforestry). These features attribute to the plant’s appearance but more importantly
The Root Causes of Deforestation In the second chapter of his book, Tropical Deforestation: Small Farmers and Land Clearing in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Thomas K. Rudel hypothesizes that the cause of rainforest destruction goes beyond the traditional immiserization model. The immiserization model holds that there are two groups of people separately causing deforestation: powerful businesses such as the plantation owners and extractive enterprises; and landless peasants. Instead, he contends that
The increasing demands of clean water in the developing countries, threaten the biodiversity and human needs to survive, towns and cities in such countries are under a severe environmental stress. Cities have grown over past decades due to migration, increase in trade, tourism, and other activities. This created over population in urban areas more than they could handle. Drinking water and sanitation facilities are being hard to provide for the high number of citizens. The water supply and sanitation
greatly affect food security. The system and its farmers must come up with a way to respond to these demands and difficulties... ... middle of paper ... ...d. They can be dulled by conservation: conservation of agriculture, land restoration, agroforestry for food, avoiding deforestation etc. These and many other strategies can be used to improve the conservation of agriculture. This in turn could possibly produce more resilience and adaptability of production and the pressures of climate changes
Tropical Rainforest Destruction Introduction “In the minute that it takes you to read this page, a piece of tropical rainforest the size of 10 city blocks will vanish forever” (Lewis, 1990, pg 40). Rainforests around the world are being destroyed at such rates, three hundred and sixty-five days a year. The rainforests are “home to over half of all living things [and]…cover less than 7 percent of the land surface of the globe” (Lewis, 1990, pg 14). This paper analyzes tropical rainforest
timber cutting that denuded the land and caused erosion, floods or a shortage of food products. Ancient Forestry Practices In ancient times forest protection and nature conservation laws were in effect as early as 1, 700 BC. In the African Tropics, agroforestry (growing of food crops in association with trees) has been practiced for hundreds of years. Relatively little is known about tropical forestry before the mid 1800’s in most places. At that time, the European colonial empires brought modern forest
Pronatur is a corporation that connects local farmers in Peru to a global distributer, Nature & More, who then sells their commodity, mangos, to consumers world-wide. Pronatur is working to modernize farming and the farming infrastructure by working personally with growers to improve their lives and therefore, the commodity chain for which they are a part. They promote environmentally friendly practices and work with the farmers themselves to ensure their success on the fields as well as in their
The Effects of Columbus’ Travels on the America’s When Columbus landed in the “New World”, or the America’s, this marked the beginning of World growth and prosperity; at least for the most of Europe. However, for the America’s, it was the beginning of disaster for the country. By discovering the America’s, Columbus ruined not on the lives of many indigenous people, but also the land which they lived. Before Columbus landed in the, what is now the Caribbean, the life of the indigenous people of
Rehabilitation is the process of reclaiming land for economical or conservation purposes. This process usually involves re-vegetation. The main aim in rehabilitation is to either return the land to a self-sustaining ecosystem or prepare the land for human use, i.e. crops, pastures and plantations. Rehabilitation should take place at a rate that is significantly higher than natural succession. Several principles are implemented for successful rehabilitation. Of these principles includes the need for
Introduction Sustainable development entails a development blueprint where people fulfill the present needs without compromising on future generations' needs. In brief, sustainable development is a combination of the concepts of needs and limitations (Lyle, 2011). The needs concept implies the basic needs of the poor people in the world. World development projects could easily overlook the needs of the poor hence the intervention of sustainable development. The limitations idea, on the other hand
“Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans" (Vidal, John). This quote was said by the leader of Bolivia, Evo Morales. His words are filled with so much truth, and he speaks of humans relying so heavily on the earth for supplies and habitation while they are really pests killing the planet themselves. Humans are needy and destructive
Introduction Ecosystem is the scientific study of interaction of living and nonliving things with each other but if any ecosystem is created artificially and is maintained to satisfy human needs is called agriculture ecosystem or agroecosystem. Natural ecosystems usually contain hundreds or thousands of species of organisms and are very complex in their functioning. But agricultural ecosystems are relatively artificial and are being modified and controlled by humans. The main characteristics of
Lateritic Soils in the Tropics: The Problems and Management Possibilities The soil name "laterite" comes from a Latin word "later" meaning brick. It is an appropriate name, as soils under this classification are characterized by forming hard, impenetrable and often irreversible pans when dried (Soils and Soil Fertility 1993). Lateritic soils are also characterized by their low soil fertility. Due to the high rate of weathering, and resulting low charge minerals, the soil is unable to retain
payments as opposed to group payments (Kaczan et al, 2013). Equally, payments in the form of fertilizer proved to be exceedingly attractive to local agriculturalists (Kaczan et al, 2013). Such a payment could result in improving the productivity of agroforestry and other sites, in the long-term reducing the continued fragmentation and destruction of forest as well as the complete conversion of land to open field crops (Kaczan et al, 2013). In turn this would help maintain biodiversity levels of the forest
Our planet is full of extraordinary beauty, in order for us to enjoy them, we would need to travel to all the locations or fly into space and enjoy them from afar. There are places that if we were to see how exquisite they were, it would take our breath away. Indonesia is one of those countries, with its powdery sand beaches, multi-ethnic culture, and beautiful lush forests filled with wildlife. Indonesia is occupied with numerous national parks and preserves. Three quarters of the country is