Indigenous agroforestry ‘may improve livelihoods’

SciDev.Net: Smallholder farmers should use their indigenous knowledge of trees to boost incomes and drive social development, according to a new book by Roger Leakey, vice chairman of the International Tree Foundation and renowned tree biologist. Leakey said his new book Living with the Trees of Life: Towards the Transformation of Tropical Agriculture is the world's first research-based guide for agroforestry -- an agricultural practice that uses the interactive benefits of combining trees and shrubs with......

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