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| English | ||||
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| Best Practices, Soil Improvement, Fodder Production, Fuelwood Production, Nutrition and Food Production, Livestock Production, Watershed Protection | ||||
| Seed collection, Seed storage, nursery bed preparation, bareroot nurseries, barestem outplanting | ||||
| Resources that focus on a particular country or region | ||||
| Resources that focus on one or more tree, shrub, or crop species | ||||
| Climate change, environment, plant biology, plant and animal interactions | ||||
| Appropriate technology, training | ||||
| Useful websites for agroforestry and related research areas | ||||
| Resources that can only be viewed at the Ruppe Center in Silver Spring. These resources cover a range of topics. | ||||
Please request/suggest resources by sending an email to info@treesftf.org. |
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| Agroforestry Technologies | ||||
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| Best practices | Agroforestry in the drylands of eastern Africa_ A call to action | Drylands, dryland rehabilitation programme, agroforestry, food security, income security, sustainable land use, extension programme, marginal lands, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, India, Sahel, eastern Africa | ||
| Best Practices | Agroforestry in the West African Sahel | Overview of agroforestry topics and technologies | ||
| Best Practices | Pruning Parkinsonia for a Live Fence | The video describes how to create a live fence | ||
| Best Practices | Senegal and Gambia Agroforestry Manual | |||
| Best Practices | Training Manual for Applied Agroforestry Practices | Alleycropping, silvopasture, riparian buffers, windbreaks, forest farming, agroforestry and wildlife, marketing, and economics | ||
| Best practices | Trees for the Future Poster_english_small | Outlines uses of trees | ||
| Best practices | Tropical Agiculture | Tropical climates and farming, tropical soils, agricultural methods for the tropics, tropical products in commerce, sugar cane, coconuts, fruits and nuts, starchy foods, tobacco, fiber, rubber gums, drugs, tans and dyes, spices, perfume, oils, timber, legumes, livestock | ||
| Energy Production | Producer Gas: Another fuel for motor transport | |||
| Food Production | Agroforestry today - selecting the best wild fruits | fruits, agroforestry, semi-arid, arid, live fences | ||
| Food Production | Cultivation of Soya and Other Legumes | soy, soya, legumes, rotational cropping systems, agromisa | ||
| Food Production | Features of the System of Rice Intensification | system of rice intensification, SRI, yields, water scarcity | ||
| Food Production | Fruit Growing in the Tropics | agromisa, cropping systems for fruit, propagation, pruning, pollination, crop protection, establishment and layout of orchard | ||
| Food Production | Granaries | organization and management of granaries, mali, zambia, agromisa | ||
| Food Production | Home Gardening | Choosing a place to plant, bed preparation, planting, maintenance, crop rotation, companion planting, seeds, plant spacing | ||
| Food Production | Identification of Crop Damage | crop damage, mites, insects, plant diseases, nematodes, nutrient deficiencies, agromisa | ||
| Food Production | Marketing for Small-scale Producers | marketing, price, demand, supply, storage, transport, processing, presentation, financing, cooperation, agromisa | ||
| Food Production | Non-Chemical Crop Protection | pests, pest management, insects and mites, diseases, weeds, non-chemical controls, agromisa | ||
| Food Production | Organic Plant Production | pest prevention, insect identification | ||
| Food Production | Preservation of Fruit and Vegetables | food spoilage, preparation, preservation (drying, salt, vinegar), jam and juice, small-scale processing, agromisa | ||
| Food Production | Protected Cultivation | requirements for greenhouse production, types and construction, greenhouse cover, climate control, water supply, crop protection, crop selection and care, agromisa | ||
| Food Production | Protection of Stored Grains and Pulses | storage pests, inspection and identification, preventive measures, non-chemical insect controls, use of insecticides, prevention and control of rats and mice, agromisa | ||
| Food Production | Small-scale Production of Weaning Foods | infant feeding, recipes, production process and preparation, breast feeding, agromisa | ||
| Food Production | System of Rice Intensification - Weeders | System of rice intensification, SRI, weeds, intercropping, mechanical control, yields, productivity, weeders, weeder design | ||
| Food Production | The Storage of Tropical Agricultural Products | environmental influences, storage of various crops, drying, storage methods, agromisa | ||
| Food Production | Unicef home garden handbook | design and establishment of mixed gardens | ||
| Food Production | Urban Agriculture | growing vegetables in the city, opportunities of urban gardens, safe application of urban gardens, small-scale growing techniques, soil care, water care, socio-economic aspects, agromisa | ||
| Income generation |
Food, Fuel, and Fertilizer from Organic Wastes | |||
| Income generation |
Non-Timber Forest Products | Non-Timber Forest Products, NTFP, agromisa | ||
| Livestock Production | Establishing and Managing Waterpoints for Village Livestock | waterhole, water point, livestock production, agromisa | ||
| Pest control | Biointensive integrated pest management | conventional ipm, biodynamic ipm, integrated pest management, | ||
| Pest Control | Colorado Potato Beetle-Organic Control Options | colorado potato beetle, biological control | ||
| Pest Control | Enhancing the push-pull strategy | pest control, push-pull strategy, food security, soil fertility, kenya, uganda | ||
| Pest Control | Flea Beetle-Organic management options | flea beetle, pest control, cultural and physical controls, biological controls, alternative pesticides | ||
| Pest Control | Organic Integrated Pest Management | beneficial organisms, important pests | ||
| Pest Control | Pesticides | crop protection, what are pesticides, effective application of pesticides, human and environmental hazards, safe and adequate use | ||
| Pest Control | Plant diseases | plant disease, prevention, identification | ||
| Pest control | Sustainable Fire Ant Management | fire ant ecology and biological control, least toxic pesticides, baits, physical controls | ||
| Pest Control | Sustainable Management of soil-borne soil diseases | strategies for control, general suppression, crop rotation, plant nutrition, compost | ||
| Pest Control | Symphylans-soil pest management options | symphylans, identification, biology and ecology, sampling, management and control | ||
| Pest Control | Termite control without chemicals | termites, benefits of termites, chemical control, organic control, encouraging predators, substitute food sources, crop rotation, physical barriers, plants with resistance, | ||
| Pest Control | Thrips Management alternatives in the field | thrips, cultural controls, biological control, alternative pesticides | ||
| Seedling Protection |
Protection of Seedlings | protection from grazing animals, protection at nursery stage, outplanting, weed management, local materials | ||
| Soil Improvement |
Alternative Soil Amendments | amendments, soil improvement, manure, compost, soil conditions | ||
| Soil Improvement |
Biodynamic Farming and Compost Preparation | biodynamic, compost, manure tea, compost tea | ||
| Soil Improvement |
Drought Resistant Soils | soils, soil organic matter (SOM), ground cover, soil texture | ||
| Soil Improvement |
Erosion Control in the Tropics | erosion, effects on agriculture, contours, cover crops, mulching, rotation and fallow, drainage, barriers, gully control, tree species for erosion control, agromisa | ||
| Soil Improvement |
Manure Composting Manual | raw manure use, contamination, compost | ||
| Soil Improvement |
Manures for Organic Crop Production | raw manure use, contamination, fertility, weed problems, pollution, compost | ||
| Soil Improvement |
Notes on Compost Teas | compost teas, compost extracts, production, brewing | ||
| Soil Improvement |
Overview of cover crops and green manures | uses and benefits of cover crops and green manures | ||
| Soil Improvement |
School Composting - A manual for Connecticut Schools | getting started, school community involvement, infrastructure, day-to-day composting, finished compost | ||
| Soil Improvement |
Soil Fertility Management | mulching, green manure, intercropping, green fallow, agroforestry, fertility, compost, manure, chemical fertilizer, plant nutrients, soil characteristics, soil assessment, agromisa | ||
| Soil Improvement |
Sustainable Soil Managment | soil texture and structure, soil organisms, humus, tillage, fertilizer, topsoil | ||
| Soil Improvement |
The Preparation and Use of Compost | role of organic matter and compost, composting process, methods, materials, using compost, compost teas, bokashi, organic fertilizer, agromisa | ||
| Water management | From the mountain to the tap | watersheds, tree planting, payment for environmental services, poilcy | ||
| Weed control | Organic integrated weed management | weed management | ||
| Nursery Technologies | ||||
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| Best Practices | Design, Construction and management of a Nursery | nursery production | ||
| Best Practices | Good Tree Nursery Practices-Practical Guidelines for Community Nurseries | Overview of nursery practices, seed collection, propogation | ||
| Best Practices | Good Tree Nursery Practices-Practical Guidelines for Research Nurseries | Overview of nursery practices, seed collection, propogation | ||
| Propagation | Barestem Presentation_English | |||
| Propagation | Grafting Guide-U of M extension | |||
| Seed | Plant Patents Beyond Control | seeds, intellectual property, biotechnology, genetic material, laws, agromisa | ||
| Seed | Small-scale Seed Production | pollination, seed quality, seed production, harvesting seed crops, care and storage, seed sales, agromisa | ||
| Seed | Tropical Tree Seed Manual | seed biology, collection, storage, dormancy and germination, pathology, ecology, species descriptions, tropical | ||
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| Agroforestry Systems in the Philippines | philippines, mt. banahaw, indigenous tree species, pre-germination treatments, agroforestry systems | |||
| Potential Hedgerow Species for Alleycropping systems in Philippine Upland Farms | Philippines, upland farming systems, alleycropping, vetiver | |||
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Useful Trees and Shrubs in Eritrea | Eritrea; Identification, Propagation and Management for Agricultural and Pastoral Communities | ||
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Useful trees and shrubs of Ethiopia | Ethiopia, Identification, Propagation and Management for 17 Agroclimatic Zones | ||
| Water management | Rainwater Harvesting for Natural Resources Management: A planning guide for Tanzania | Tanzania, rainwater, rainwater harvesting, mitigating droughts, preventing floods, socio-economic aspects of rainwater harvesting | ||
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| Acacia | Acacias for Rural, Industrial and Environmental Development | Use of acacia in various Asian countries, fuel wood, charcoal, use of individual species | ||
| Casuarina | Casuarinas, Nitrogen-Fixing Trees for Adverse Sites | |||
| Eucalyptus | Eucalyptus Planting in ‘Social Forestry’ in India- Boon or Curse | eucalyptus, criticisms, toxicity, nutrient budgets, hydrology, social forestry, rural development | ||
| Eucalyptus | Rising preference for eucalyptus poses dilemma in eastern Africa | Policy brief from the World Agroforestry Centre on the appropriate locations for planting eucalyptus | ||
| Firewood | Firewood_crops_volume 1 | |||
| Firewood | Firewood_crops_volume 2 | |||
| Jatropha | Jatropha elearning | explains biofuel production from jatropha | ||
| Jojoba-New Crop for Arid Lands, New Raw Material for Industry | ||||
| Leucaena | Leucaena, Promising Forage and Tree Crop for the Tropics | |||
| Moringa | Moringa Nutrition Chart | One page outline of the nutrients in moringa | ||
| Moringa | Moringa - A Tree for Nutrients | Breakdown of nutrients in moringa, how to dry leaves to make powder, how to set up seedbed for moringa leaf production | ||
| Moringa | Moringa oleifera - an underutilized tree with amazing versatility | description of moringa and the ways it can be used | ||
| Neem | Neem soap and lotion | recipe for soap and lotion | ||
| Neem | Neem-A tree for solving global problems | |||
| The Winged Bean, A High-Protein Crop For The Tropics | ||||
| Tree Species Attributes | TREES species and their uses | |||
| TREES Species Basic Info Sheet | overview of the species that TREES offers, descriptions, uses, propagation | |||
| Underexploited Tropical Plants with Promising Economic Value | ||||
| Vetiver | Vetiver Grass- A thin green line against erosion | |||
| Vetiver | Vetiver Grass-The Hedge Against Erosion | |||
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| Climate | Calculating CO2 Sequestration by Trees | explanation of how much carbon trees sequester | ||
| Climate | CO2 Emission Calculations | emissions estimates for various activities used for carbon audits | ||
| Climate | Global Cooling Answer Book - 2nd edition | |||
| Deforestation | Rainforests - The Burning Issue | Information on rainforests around the world and what their destruction means for humanity | ||
| Deforestation | State of the World's Forests 2009 | Regional outlook of the world's forests, global demand for wood products, environmental services, individual country data, forest cover change | ||
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| Appropriate Technology | Introduction to Hydraulic Ram Pumps | Design, use, parts, ram pump, | ||
| Appropriate Technology | Rainwater Harvesting for Domestic Use | Need for rainwater harvesting, basic principles, preconditions, design, materials, construction, cost, agromisa | ||
| Appropriate Technology | Water Harvesting and Soil Moisture Retention | basic principles of water harvesting, designing systems, contour systems, freestanding systems, soil moisture retention, agromisa | ||
| Finance | The Rural Finance Landscape | Financial services, products and methodologies, financial providers, good practices | ||
| Organization | Starting a Coorperative | what is a cooperative, why start a cooperative, what is needed, management, statutes and by-laws, finance, pitfalls, establishing a cooperative, agromisa | ||
| Water conservation | More Water for Arid Lands | |||
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Aim is to exchange knowledge information on small-scale sustainable agriculture and related topics |
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This web portal contains a wealth of information on small farm tropical agriculture. Follow the links on the left to find ideas for growing food under difficult conditions, to learn about underutilized plants and find out how you can order free trial packets of seed to evaluate these plants in the communities where you work |
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A description of many tropical and subtropical fruits |
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An initiative of ecoagriculture partners that has some interesting case studies on ecoagriculture, as well as tools for monitoring and measuring the results of these types of projects. |
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Success stories from small-scale farmers are often hard to find. They do exist, and there is much to be learnt from them. They can help improve productivity, generate income, and empower farmers. The LEISA Network finds and publishes these stories, and exchanges knowledge and information on sustainable, small-holder farming around the world. |
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Moringa news is an international network of people interested in Moringa. This web site offers people reliable information on Moringa and a platform to exchange knowledge, products and services. Downloadable documents are available here. |
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Online since 1995, NewCROP (New Crops Resource Online Program) is an information-rich site related to crop plants. It is a project of the Purdue University Center for New Crops and Plant Products and is associated with the New Crop Diversification project and the Jefferson Institute. The crop index has information about many temperate and tropical species. |
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Information on crop production and sustainable agriculture in India; Case studies; Special technologies |
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| Traditional Rainwater Harvesting Strategies | Has some great strategies for rainwater harvesting |
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Trees for Life Journal is an open-access journal of traditional knowledge and scientific studies of beneficial trees and plants published online by Trees for Life, a nonprofit organization. |
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Interactive selection tool for forage species and fact sheets for individual species |
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| WikiVerde | WikiVerde is a resource with an international viewpoint on issues concerning the environment and sustainable living. WikiVerde encourages people from around the globe to share their views on everything from alternative energy to recycling to organic food and natural health. We hope that readers will leave having a better understanding of how our species can help to protect our environment, as opposed to focusing on the policies of individual nations or local governments. |
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Provides access to success stories, resources, training, and networking opportunities |
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The Agroforestree (AFT) Database is a species reference and selection guide for agroforestry trees. |
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Website has training materials on vegetable production, and they have offices in E. and W. Africa, India, and Asia. |
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Includes technical bulletins, production guides, fact sheets, training guides, and recipes. |
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| Trees for the Future | P.O. Box 7027 | Silver Spring, MD 20907 | 1.800.643.0001 or 1.301.565.0630 | Skype: treesftf
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