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Title: Agroforestry Guides for Pacific Islands
Editors: Craig R. Elevitch and Kim M. Wilkinson
Size: 239 pages, 8.5" X 11" softcover binding, illustrated, fully indexed
ISBN: 0-9702544-0-7
Publish date: September 2000
Retail price: $24.95 plus shipping. Available from Hawaii bookstores including Borders and Waldenbooks, or on line at www.agroforestry.net
Publisher: Permanent Agriculture Resources, P.O. Box 428, Holualoa, Hawaii 96725 USA
Payment methods accepted: Check, money order, purchase order from approved organizations, credit card (Visa, Mastercard, or American Express)
For orders please contact:
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Agroforestry Net, Inc.
P.O. Box 428
Holualoa, Hawaii 96725 USA
Tel: 808-324-4427; Fax: 808-324-4129
E-mail: books@agroforestry.net
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Book Description
For Educators, Gardeners, Farmers, Foresters, and Landscapers:
Agroforestry Guides for Pacific Islands
“Well-researched, concise, user-friendly...an invaluable practical resource for those working to conserve and expand the use of trees in agricultural systems.”
— APANews, The Asia-Pacific Agroforestry Newsletter
FAO Regional Office, Bangkok, Thailand
“A significant contribution to public education, advancing the cause of integrated agriculture and forestry...a resource of lasting value.”
— The Permaculture Activist, North Carolina
“A most excellent handbook...a wonderful resource.”
— Developing Countries Farm Radio Network, Toronto, Canada
“Provides a real clearinghouse on traditional and modern agroforestry not only for Pacific Islands, also very useful for other regions.”
— ILEIA Newsletter for Low External Input and Sustainable Agriculture
The Netherlands
“Eloquently makes a case for reintroducing and emphasizing trees in our island agriculture.”
— Dr. Bill Raynor, Program Director, The Nature Conservancy
Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia
Pacific Islanders were once among the most self-sufficient and well-nourished peoples in the world. Their traditional agricultural systems integrated trees with production, a practice known as agroforestry. Today, agroforestry is recognized as a vital part of sustainable farming, gardening, and landscaping. Integrating trees can conserve soil and water, diversify products, beautify landscapes, and enhance the economic and ecological viability of land use systems.
Agroforestry Guides for Pacific Islands provide practical planning information for educators, gardeners, farmers, foresters, and landscapers on many agroforestry practices.
Learn how to:
- Design an effective windbreak that also provides fruits, wood, or wildlife habitat (Chapter 8)
- Improve the fertility of degraded land with trees and shrubs (Chapter 5)
- Choose tree species for multiple uses and products (Chapters 2, 6, and 8)
- Use the shady environments under orchards or forests for more productive cropping systems (Chapter 4)
- Get the full economic picture of planting timber trees on your land (Chapter 7)
- Understand the wisdom of indigenous practices, and expand on their success (Chapter 2)
- Integrate more trees in farm systems using living fences, hedgerows, or silvopasture systems (Chapter 5)
- Start a business based on sustainable use of nontimber forest products (Chapter 3)
- Locate helpful internet sites, organizations, people, and publications (all chapters)
The book also features:
Over 100 illustrations and figures
Information on over 300 Pacific Island plants, detailing their uses and products (nuts, fruits, spices, medicinal uses, animal fodder, timber, honey production, wildlife habitat, and more)
Extensive resource sections for each topic, describing hundreds of current internet links, organizations, periodicals and books
Recent comments about Agroforestry Guides for Pacific Islands
“A significant contribution...a resource guide appropriate for use in classrooms, research stations, or privately held lands. The appealing style and format, easy readability, and helpful illustrations all contribute to this book’s appeal to a wide-ranging audience.”
— Agroforestry Systems, Gainesville, Florida
“Just fabulous! It is everything I am interested in on this subject ...we expect your book to be of great use for a long time. It is awesome!”
— Terry Harvey, Farmer, Puna, Hawaii
“The Guides are rich sourcebooks for ideas and possibilities for agroforestry and include information on hundreds of useful trees and plants.”
— Jim Hollyer, Agricultural Development in the American Pacific (ADAP) Project
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii
“I have nothing but praise for this handbook...it contains excellent and worthwhile information assembled it in a manner that reads easily. The examples are superb as are the illustrations and format.”
— William Null, Ph.D, Ecologist, Tacoma, Washington
“This is certainly the most complete and accurate compilation of agroforestry information pertinent to the Pacific that I am aware of—great job.”
— Karl R. Dalla Rosa, Forester
Division of Forestry and Wildlife, Honolulu, Hawaii
“Will be of immense use as reference material to our faculty and students in agronomy, horticulture, and forestry. The possibilities of using agroforestry systems to increase the productivity and sustainability of tropical lands will be of increasing importance in the next century. I am certain that Agroforestry Guides for Pacific Islands will serve to stimulate future research and a better understanding of agroforestry systems in the Pacific Islands.”
— Bruce W. Mathews
Associate Professor of Agronomy and Soils, University of Hawaii
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