Smallholder Tree Growing for Rural Development and Environmental Services
Publication year: 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4020-8261-0
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Recent history reveals both that the large-scale reforestation projects of the 20th century have often been less successful than anticipated, and that tree growing by smallholders – as an alternative means to combat deforestation and promote sustainable land use – has received relatively little attention from the scientific and development communities. Taking a first step to addressing that balance, this collection of peer-reviewed papers adopts a comparative approach to explore the potential role that tree growing by farmers can play in sustainable forest management. The goal of this approach is to identify common threads and to start to develop a framework for future research and practice.
Subject: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Deforestation, Developing countries, On-farm tree plantation, Small-scale forestry, Sustainable resource management, Tropical Reforestation, forest, forestry sector
