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Agroforestry

Index Agroforestry

Agroforestry is a land use management system in which trees or shrubs are grown around or among crops or pastureland. [1]

184 relations: Afforestation, Agrarian society, Agricultural experiment station, Agriculture in Costa Rica, Agro-, Agroecology, Agroecology in Latin America, Agroforestry Research Trust, Albizia canescens, Allanblackia oil, Allemagne-en-Provence, Ancient Hawaii, Ancient woodland, APE Foundation, Arachis, Ariane de Rothschild, Arid Forest Research Institute, Astrocaryum standleyanum, Bactris gasipaes, Balanites aegyptiaca, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Cameroon–United States relations, CARE (relief agency), Casuarina cunninghamiana, Casuarina obesa, Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Cheq Wong people, Christian vegetarianism, Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance, Climate-friendly gardening, Cocoa bean, Coptis teeta, Craik Sustainable Living Project, Crop diversity, Crown closure, Culture of Nicaragua, Cupuaçu, Cytisus proliferus, Debate over China's economic responsibilities for climate change mitigation, Deforestation and climate change, Dehesa, Eastern miombo woodlands, Ecoagriculture, Ecological engineering, Ecology, Ecoscaping, Ecotechnology, Eden Reforestation Projects, Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization, ..., Environmental Foundation for Africa, Environmental issues in Peru, Erythrina edulis, Extrapolation domain analysis, Faidherbia, Farm Forestry Toolbox, Farmer-managed natural regeneration, Farming systems in India, Fertilizer tree, Flail mower, Forest, Forest farming, Forest gardening, Forest product, Forest restoration, Forestry, Futuro Forestal S.A., Gabriel Hemery, Gardening, Genetic pollution, Gliricidia sepium, Glossary of environmental science, Great Plains Shelterbelt, Grevillea robusta, Groasis Waterboxx, Hawaiian ethnobiology, Hedge trimmer, Hippophae rhamnoides, History of the forest in Central Europe, Horsfieldia sessilifolia, Indian Institute of Natural Resins and Gums, Indigenous horticulture, Inga, Inga alley cropping, Inocarpus fagifer, Integrated Conservation and Development Project, Integrated landscape management, Intensive farming, International Day of Forests, Irvingia gabonensis, Juglone, Kodagu district, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Labode Popoola, Lansium parasiticum, Law enforcement in Albania, Lebak, Sultan Kudarat, List of environmental organisations topics, List of universities in Nicaragua, Low-impact development (UK), Macro-engineering, Macrogenioglottus alipioi, Madhya Pradesh Rural Livelihoods Project, Managua, Margaritaria discoidea, Martin Crawford, Mbazzi, Megathyrsus maximus, Mesoamerican Society for Ecological Economics, Miguel Altieri, Milicia excelsa, Mimosa scabrella, Mount Kilimanjaro, Muara Bungo, Multipurpose tree, Mycoforestry, Natural farming, New Franklin, Missouri, Nicaragua, Njangsa, Nok culture, NOZA, Inc., Outline of agriculture, Outline of forestry, Paradise Wood, Paul Yeboah, Paulownia, Payment for ecosystem services, Peak water, Permaculture, Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement, Pico Bonito National Park, Polyculture, Populus euphratica, Private Forests Tasmania, Pwojè Pyebwa, Quercus suber, Ray Wijewardene, Reconciliation ecology, Regenerative agriculture, Riparian buffer, Robert Hart (horticulturist), Robin Birley (businessman), Runa Foundation, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Sambazon, Sand fence, Seawater greenhouse, Sepp Holzer, Sesbania, Shade-grown coffee, Shimron, Silviculture, Silvopasture, Social forestry in India, Surface mining reclamation in West Virginia, Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education, Sustainable design, Sustainable development, Sustainable gardening, Tamarix, Tecomella, Terra preta, Thar Desert, Three Sisters (agriculture), TIBÁ, Tilia platyphyllos, Tree credits, Trees for the Future, Unimog, University of the Philippines Los Baños College of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of the Virgin Islands, Urban agriculture, Uromycladium, Valdivia, Vegan organic gardening, Voices of Transition, Waipa Foundation, Wildcrafting, Windbreak, Wood fuel, Woodland, World Agroforestry Centre, Yale Sustainable Food Project. Expand index (134 more) »

Afforestation

Afforestation is the establishment of a forest or stand of trees (forestation) in an area where there was no previous tree cover.

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Agrarian society

An agrarian society (or agricultural society) is any society whose economy is based on producing and maintaining crops and farmland.

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Agricultural experiment station

An agricultural experiment station (AES) or agricultural research station (ARS) is a scientific research center that investigates difficulties and potential improvements to food production and agribusiness.

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Agriculture in Costa Rica

Costa Rican agriculture plays a profound part in that country’s gross domestic product (GDP).

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Agro-

Agro- and agri- are prefixes that usually refer to agriculture.

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Agroecology

Agroecology is the study of ecological processes applied to agricultural production systems.

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Agroecology in Latin America

Agroecology is an applied science that involves the adaptation of ecological concepts to the structure, performance, and management of sustainable agroecosystems.

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Agroforestry Research Trust

The Agroforestry Research Trust (ART) is a British non-profit-making charity that researches into temperate agroforestry and all aspects of plant cropping and uses, with a focus on tree, shrub and perennial crops.

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Albizia canescens

Albizia canescens, commonly known as Belmont siris, is a species of Albizia, endemic to Northern Australia.

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Allanblackia oil

Allanblackia oil is a vegetable oil that comes from the seeds of the Allanblackia tree.

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Allemagne-en-Provence

Allemagne-en-Provence is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.

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Ancient Hawaii

Ancient Hawaii is the period of Hawaiian human history preceding the unification in 1810 of the Kingdom of Hawaiokinai by Kamehameha the Great.

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Ancient woodland

In the United Kingdom, an ancient woodland is a woodland that has existed continuously since 1600 or before in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (or 1750 in Scotland).

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APE Foundation

APE Foundation The Association for Protection of the Environment (APE) is a non-governmental organization working on issues regarding the conservation, and restoration of the environment, education about permaculture and agroforestry among other things.

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Arachis

Arachis is a genus of about 70 species of annual and perennial flowering plants in the pea family (Fabaceae), native to South America, and was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Pterocarpus clade of the Dalbergieae.

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Ariane de Rothschild

Ariane de Rothschild (née Langner, born in November 1965) is President of the Executive Committee of Edmond de Rothschild since 2015, and vice-president of the Edmond de Rothschild Holding SA since 1999.

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Arid Forest Research Institute

Arid Forest Research Institute (AFRI) is a research institute situated in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.

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Astrocaryum standleyanum

Astrocaryum standleyanum is a species of palm known by many common names, including chumba wumba, black palm, chonta, chontadura, coquillo, palma negra, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Herbarium.

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Bactris gasipaes

Bactris gasipaes is a species of palm native to the tropical forests of South and Central America.

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Balanites aegyptiaca

Balanites aegyptiaca is a species of tree, classified either as a member of the Zygophyllaceae or the Balanitaceae.

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Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University (BSMRAU) (বঙ্গবন্ধু শেখ মুজিবুর রহমান কৃষি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (বশেমুরকৃবি)) is a public agricultural university in Bangladesh, established in 1998.

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Bangladesh Agricultural University

Bangladesh Agricultural University (বাংলাদেশ কৃষি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় Bangladesh Krishi Bishshobiddalôe) or BAU was established as the only university of its kind in Bangladesh in 1961.

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Cameroon–United States relations

Cameroon–United States relations are international relations between Cameroon and the United States.

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CARE (relief agency)

CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, formerly Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) is a major international humanitarian agency delivering emergency relief and long-term international development projects.

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Casuarina cunninghamiana

Casuarina cunninghamiana is a she-oak species of the genus Casuarina.

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Casuarina obesa

Casuarina obesa, commonly known as swamp she-oak or swamp oak, is a species of Casuarina that is closely related to C. glauca and C. cristata.

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Central Soil Salinity Research Institute

The Central Soil Salinity Research Institute (acronym CSSRI) is an autonomous institute of higher learning, established under the umbrella of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) by the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India for advanced research in the field of soil sciences.

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Cheq Wong people

Cheq Wong people are an indigenous Orang Asli people of the Senoi branch in Peninsular Malaysia.

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Christian vegetarianism

Christian vegetarianism is a Christian practice based on effecting the compassionate teachings of Jesus, the twelve apostles, and the early church to all sentient or living beings through vegetarianism or, ideally, veganism.

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Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance

The Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA) is an initiative led by Conservation International, CARE, The Nature Conservancy, Rainforest Alliance, and the Wildlife Conservation Society to promote the development of land management activities that simultaneously deliver significant benefits for climate, local communities, and biodiversity.

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Climate-friendly gardening

Climate-friendly gardening is gardening in ways which reduce emissions of greenhouse gases from gardens and encourage the absorption of carbon dioxide by soils and plants in order to aid the reduction of global warming.

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Cocoa bean

The cocoa bean, also called cacao bean, cocoa, and cacao, is the dried and fully fermented seed of Theobroma cacao, from which cocoa solids and, because of the seed's fat, cocoa butter can be extracted.

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Coptis teeta

Coptis teeta is a rare species of flowering plant in the buttercup family.

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Craik Sustainable Living Project

The Craik Sustainable Living Project (CSLP) is a nonprofit organization for sustainable development which aims to advance the local use of more ecologically sound technologies and ways of living in rural Saskatchewan, Canada.

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Crop diversity

Crop diversity is the variance in genetic and phenotypic characteristics of plants used in agriculture.

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Crown closure

Crown closure is a term used in forestry.

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Culture of Nicaragua

Music and religious icons in Iberian culture and Amerindian sounds and flavors.

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Cupuaçu

Cupuaçu (Theobroma grandiflorum), also spelled cupuassu, cupuazú, cupu assu, and copoasu, is a tropical rainforest tree related to cacao.

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Cytisus proliferus

Cytisus proliferus, tagasaste or tree lucerne, is a small spreading evergreen tree that grows 3-4m high.

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Debate over China's economic responsibilities for climate change mitigation

This article documents the debate over China's economic responsibilities for climate change mitigation and mitigation of climate change in China.

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Deforestation and climate change

Deforestation is one of the main contributors to climate change.

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Dehesa

A dehesa is a multifunctional, agrosylvopastoral system (a type of agroforestry) and cultural landscape of southern and central Spain and southern Portugal; in Portugal, it is known as a montado.

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Eastern miombo woodlands

The Eastern miombo woodlands (AT0706) are an ecoregion of grassland and woodland in southern Tanzania and northern Mozambique.

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Ecoagriculture

Eco friendly agriculture describes landscapes that support both agricultural production and biodiversity conservation, working in harmony together to improve the livelihoods of rural communities.

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Ecological engineering

Ecological engineering uses ecology and engineering to predict, design, construct or restore, and manage ecosystems that integrate "human society with its natural environment for the benefit of both".

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Ecology

Ecology (from οἶκος, "house", or "environment"; -λογία, "study of") is the branch of biology which studies the interactions among organisms and their environment.

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Ecoscaping

Ecoscaping integrates the disciplines of landscape architecture and spatial planning with environmental science and provides an innovative approach in creating a sustainable and nature-friendly design and/or construction.

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Ecotechnology

Ecotechnology - not to be confused with ecotechnics - is an applied science that seeks to fulfill human needs while causing minimal ecological disrupution, by harnessing and manipulating natural forces to leverage their beneficial effects.

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Eden Reforestation Projects

Eden Reforestation Projects (Eden) is a nonprofit organization that works in developing countries to rebuild natural landscapes destroyed by deforestation.

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Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization

Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization (ECHO) is a non-profit agro-ecological organization whose mission is to support small-scale farmers through the dissemination of information and seeds.

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Environmental Foundation for Africa

The Environmental Foundation for Africa (EFA) is a Sierra Leone non-governmental organization founded in 1992 that aims to protect and restore the environment in West Africa.

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Environmental issues in Peru

The principal environmental issues in Peru are water pollution, soil erosion, pollution and deforestation.

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Erythrina edulis

Erythrina edulis (Basul) is a nitrogen fixing tree that is native to the Andean region from western Venezuela to southern Bolivia.

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Extrapolation domain analysis

Extrapolation domain analysis (EDA) is a methodology for identifying geographical areas that seem suitable for adoption of innovative ecosystem management practices on the basis of sites exhibiting similarity in conditions such as climatic, land use and socioeconomic indicators.

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Faidherbia

Faidherbia is a genus of leguminous plants containing one species, Faidherbia albida, native to Africa and the Middle East.

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Farm Forestry Toolbox

The Farm Forestry Toolbox is a collection of computer programs, referred to as 'Tools', intended to be used by farm forest owners and managers to aid decision making.

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Farmer-managed natural regeneration

Farmer-managed natural regeneration (FMNR) is a low-cost, sustainable land restoration technique used to combat poverty and hunger amongst poor subsistence farmers in developing countries by increasing food and timber production, and resilience to climate extremes.

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Farming systems in India

Farming Systems in India are strategically utilised, according to the locations where they are most suitable.

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Fertilizer tree

Fertilizer trees are used in agroforestry to improve the condition of soils used for farming.

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Flail mower

A flail mower is a type of powered garden/agricultural equipment, which is used to deal with heavier grass/scrub which a normal lawn mower could not cope with.

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Forest

A forest is a large area dominated by trees.

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Forest farming

Forest farming is the cultivation of high-value specialty crops under a forest canopy that is intentionally modified or maintained to provide shade levels and habitat that favor growth and enhance production levels.

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Forest gardening

Forest gardening is a low-maintenance sustainable plant-based food production and agroforestry system based on woodland ecosystems, incorporating fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and perennial vegetables which have yields directly useful to humans.

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Forest product

A forest product is any material derived from forestry for direct consumption or commercial use, such as lumber, paper, or forage for livestock.

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Forest restoration

Forest restoration is defined as “actions to re-instate ecological processes, which accelerate recovery of forest structure, ecological functioning and biodiversity levels towards those typical of climax forest” i.e. the end-stage of natural forest succession.

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Forestry

Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, using, conserving, and repairing forests, woodlands, and associated resources to meet desired goals, needs, and values for human and environment benefits.

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Futuro Forestal S.A.

Futuro Forestal S.A. is a German-Panamanian reforestation company that operates in Latin America.

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Gabriel Hemery

Dr Gabriel Hemery (born 13 December 1968) is an English forest scientist (silvologist) and author.

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Gardening

Gardening is the practice of growing and cultivating plants as part of horticulture.

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Genetic pollution

Genetic pollution is a controversial term for uncontrolled gene flow into wild populations.

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Gliricidia sepium

Gliricidia sepium, often simply referred to as Gliricidia (common names: quickstick, mata ratón; cacao de nance, cachanance; piñon Cubano in the Dominican Republic; madreado in Honduras; kakawate in the Philippines; madre xacao or madre de cacao in the Philippines and Guatemala; and madero negro in Nicaragua); wetahiriya in Sinhala, is a medium size leguminous tree belonging to the family Fabaceae.

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Glossary of environmental science

This is a glossary of environmental science.

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Great Plains Shelterbelt

The Great Plains Shelterbelt was a project to create windbreaks in the Great Plains states of the United States, that began in 1934.

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Grevillea robusta

Grevillea robusta, commonly known as the southern silky oak, silk oak or silky oak, or Australian silver oak, is a flowering plant in the family Proteaceae.

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Groasis Waterboxx

The Groasis Waterboxx is a device designed to help grow trees in dry areas.

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Hawaiian ethnobiology

Hawaiian ethnobiology is the study of how people in Hawaii, particularly pertaining to those of pre-western contact, interacted with the plants around them.

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Hedge trimmer

A hedge trimmer, shrub trimmer, or bush trimmer, is a gardening tool or machine used for trimming (cutting, pruning) hedges or solitary shrubs (bushes).

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Hippophae rhamnoides

Hippophae rhamnoides, also known as common sea buckthorn is a species of flowering plant in the family Elaeagnaceae, native to the cold-temperate regions of Europe and Asia.

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History of the forest in Central Europe

The history of the forest in Central Europe is characterised by thousands of years of exploitation by people.

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Horsfieldia sessilifolia

Horsfieldia sessilifolia is a species of plant in the family Myristicaceae.

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Indian Institute of Natural Resins and Gums

The Indian Institute of Natural Resins and Gums (acronym IINRG), formerly known as the Indian Lac Research Institute, is an autonomous institute, established under the umbrella of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) by the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India for advanced research on lac and other natural resins and gums.

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Indigenous horticulture

Indigenous horticulture is practised in various ways across all inhabited continents.

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Inga

Inga (common name shimbillo) is a genus of small tropical, tough-leaved, nitrogen-fixing treesElkan, Daniel.

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Inga alley cropping

Inga alley cropping refers to planting agricultural crops between rows of Inga trees.

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Inocarpus fagifer

Inocarpus fagifer, commonly known as the Tahitian chestnut, Polynesian chestnut, aila or mape tree, is a species of flowering plant in the subfamily Faboideae of the legume family, Fabaceae.

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Integrated Conservation and Development Project

Integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs) are biodiversity conservation projects with rural development components.

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Integrated landscape management

Integrated landscape management is a way of managing a landscape that brings together multiple stakeholders, who collaborate to integrate policy and practice for their different land use objectives, with the purpose of achieving sustainable landscapes.

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Intensive farming

Intensive farming involves various types of agriculture with higher levels of input and output per cubic unit of agricultural land area.

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International Day of Forests

The International Day of Forests was established on the 21st day of March, by resolution of the United Nations General Assembly on November 28, 2012.

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Irvingia gabonensis

Irvingia gabonensis is a species of African trees in the genus Irvingia, sometimes known by the common names wild mango, African mango, bush mango, dika or ogbono.

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Juglone

Juglone, also called 5-hydroxy-1,4-naphthalenedione (IUPAC) is an organic compound with the molecular formula C10H6O3.

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Kodagu district

Kodagu is an administrative district in Karnataka, India.

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Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) is a university in Kumasi, Ashanti, Ghana.

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Labode Popoola

Labode Popoola (born 28 September 1960) is a Nigerian academic, sportman and a professor of Forest Economics.

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Lansium parasiticum

Lansium parasiticum, also known as langsat or lanzones, is a species of tree in the Mahogany family.

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Law enforcement in Albania

Law enforcement in Albania is the responsibility of several agencies.

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Lebak, Sultan Kudarat

, officially the, (Filipino: Bayan ng Lebak; Hiligaynon: Banwa sang Lebak), is a settlement_text in the province of,. According to the, it has a population of people. It is a coastal municipality that lie in the northernmost part of the province, about from Isulan, the provincial capital.

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List of environmental organisations topics

This is a list of topics on which environmental organizations focus.

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List of universities in Nicaragua

The oldest institution of higher education in Nicaragua is the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua, which was founded in León in 1812, during the Spanish colonial period.

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Low-impact development (UK)

Low-impact development (LID) has been defined as "development which through its low negative environmental impact either enhances or does not significantly diminish environmental quality".

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Macro-engineering

In engineering, macro-engineering (alternatively known as macroengineering or macro engineering and as mega engineering) is the implementation of extremely large-scale design projects.

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Macrogenioglottus alipioi

The Bahia forest frog, Macrogenioglottus alipioi, is a species of frog in the Odontophrynidae family.

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Madhya Pradesh Rural Livelihoods Project

The Madhya Pradesh Rural Livelihoods Project (MPRLP) works with local village assemblies, Gram Sabha, to facilitate and guide community-driven collective and individual action to reduce poverty.

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Managua

Managua is the capital and largest city of Nicaragua, and the center of eponymous department.

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Margaritaria discoidea

Margaritaria discoidea is a tree in the Phyllanthaceae family, commonly known as the pheasant-berry, egossa red pear or bushveld peacock-berry.

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Martin Crawford

Martin Crawford is Director of the Agroforestry Research Trust, a British charity which conducts research into temperate agroforestry.

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Mbazzi

Mbazzi is a village situated in Mpigi District in Uganda, south of the road to Mityana.

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Megathyrsus maximus

Megathyrsus maximus, known as Guinea grass and green panic grass in English, is a large perennial bunch grass that is native to Africa, Palestine, and Yemen.

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Mesoamerican Society for Ecological Economics

The Mesoamerican Society for Ecological Economics (SMEE) is a regional chapter of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE).

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Miguel Altieri

Miguel Altieri is a Chilean born agronomist and entomologist.

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Milicia excelsa

Milicia excelsa (commonly known as African teak, mvule or iroko) is a tree species from tropical Africa.

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Mimosa scabrella

Mimosa scabrella is a tree in the Fabaceae family.

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Mount Kilimanjaro

Mount Kilimanjaro or just Kilimanjaro, with its three volcanic cones, "Kibo", "Mawenzi", and "Shira", is a dormant volcano in Tanzania.

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Muara Bungo

Muara Bungo is a town in the Indonesian province of Jambi, Sumatra.

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Multipurpose tree

Multipurpose trees are trees that are deliberately grown and managed for more than one output.

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Mycoforestry

Mycoforestry is an ecological forest management system implemented to enhance forest ecosystems and plant communities through the introduction of mycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungi.

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Natural farming

Natural farming is an ecological farming approach established by Masanobu Fukuoka (1913–2008), a Japanese farmer and philosopher, introduced in his 1975 book The One-Straw Revolution.

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New Franklin, Missouri

New Franklin is a city in Howard County, Missouri, United States.

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Nicaragua

Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the largest country in the Central American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Njangsa

The term Njangsa refers to an oily seeds tree, Ricinodendron heudelotii, found in tropical West Africa.

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Nok culture

The Nok culture is an early Iron Age population whose material remains are named after the Ham village of Nok in Kaduna State of Nigeria, where their famous terracotta sculptures were first discovered in 1928.

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NOZA, Inc.

NOZA, Inc., formerly a privately held Santa Barbara, California-based company established in 2006 by Craig Harris, was acquired in 2010 by Blackbaud.

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Outline of agriculture

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to agriculture: Agriculture – cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life.

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Outline of forestry

The following outline is provided as an overview of and guide to forestry: Forestry – science and craft of creating, managing, using, conserving, and repairing forests and associated resources to meet desired goals, needs, and values for human and environment benefits.

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Paradise Wood

Paradise Wood is a research woodland established by the Earth Trust (formerly Northmoor Trust) between the villages of Little Wittenham and Long Wittenham in Oxfordshire England.

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Paul Yeboah

Paul Yeboah, is an educator, farmer, permaculturist, community developer, and social entrepreneur.

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Paulownia

Paulownia is a genus of six to 17 species (depending on taxonomic authority) of flowering plants in the family Paulowniaceae, related to and sometimes included in the Scrophulariaceae.

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Payment for ecosystem services

Payments for ecosystem services (PES), also known as payments for environmental services (or benefits), are incentives offered to farmers or landowners in exchange for managing their land to provide some sort of ecological service.

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Peak water

Peak water is a concept that underlines the growing constraints on the availability, quality, and use of freshwater resources.

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Permaculture

Permaculture is a system of agricultural and social design principles centered around simulating or directly utilizing the patterns and features observed in natural ecosystems.

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Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement

The Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement, abbreviated as PRRM, is a non-governmental organization and institution formed in 1952 in order to assist the poor members of society in the Philippines.

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Pico Bonito National Park

Pico Bonito National Park is a national park in Honduras.

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Polyculture

Polyculture is agriculture using multiple crops in the same space, providing crop diversity in imitation of the diversity of natural ecosystems, and avoiding large stands of single crops, or monoculture.

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Populus euphratica

Populus euphratica, commonly known as the Euphrates poplar or desert poplar, is a species of poplar tree in the willow family.

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Private Forests Tasmania

Private Forests Tasmania is a Tasmanian government statutory authority established in 1994 by the Tasmanian Private Forests Act 1994.

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Pwojè Pyebwa

Pwojè Pyebwa (Tree Project) is a tree-planting project in Haiti.

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Quercus suber

Quercus suber, commonly called the cork oak, is a medium-sized, evergreen oak tree in the section ''Quercus'' sect. ''Cerris''.

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Ray Wijewardene

Deshamanya Vidya Jyothi Dr Philip Revatha "Ray" Wijewardene or simply known as Philip Wijewardene (Sinhala:පිලිප් රෙවත විජයවර්ධන) (20 August 1924 – 18 August 2010) was a Sri Lankan Engineer, Aviator, Inventor and Olympian athlete.

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Reconciliation ecology

Reconciliation ecology is the branch of ecology which studies ways to encourage biodiversity in human-dominated ecosystems.

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Regenerative agriculture

Regenerative agriculture (RA) is an approach to food and farming systems that rejects pesticides, artificial fertilizers and claims to regenerate topsoil, increase biodiversity, improve water cycles, enhance ecosystem services, increase resilience to climate fluctuation and strengthen the health and vitality of farming and ranching communities.

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Riparian buffer

A riparian buffer or stream buffer is a vegetated area (a "buffer strip") near a stream, usually forested, which helps shade and partially protect the stream from the impact of adjacent land uses.

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Robert Hart (horticulturist)

Robert Adrian de Jauralde Hart (1 April 1913 – 7 March 2000) was an English pioneer of forest gardening in temperate zones.

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Robin Birley (businessman)

Robin Marcus Birley (born 19 February 1958) is an English businessman, entrepreneur and political donor.

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Runa Foundation

Runa Foundation is a public, non-profit organization with offices in Brooklyn, NY; Quito, Ecuador; Archidona, Ecuador; and Tarapoto, Peru.

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Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences

Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences (SHUATS), formerly Allahabad Agricultural Institute, is an autonomous state government university in Allahabad, India.It is at 30th rank in ICAR Ranking.It is above Rajendra Central.

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Sambazon

Sambazon, Inc. is a privately held American company based in San Clemente, California and founded in 2000.

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Sand fence

A sand fence or sandbreak, like a snow fence, is used to force windblown, drifting sand to accumulate in a desired place.

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Seawater greenhouse

A seawater greenhouse is a greenhouse structure that enables the growth of crops in arid regions, using seawater and solar energy.

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Sepp Holzer

A rainwater harvesting landscape designed by Holzer in Tamera, Portugal Josef "Sepp" Holzer (born July 24, 1942 in Ramingstein, State of Salzburg, Austria) is a farmer, an author, and an international consultant for natural agriculture.

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Sesbania

Sesbania is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae, and the only genus found in tribe Sesbanieae.

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Shade-grown coffee

Shade-grown coffee is a form of the beverage produced from coffee plants grown under a canopy of trees.

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Shimron

Shimron (שמרון) is a nature reserve in Northern Israel.

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Silviculture

Silviculture is the practice of controlling the establishment, growth, composition, health, and quality of forests to meet diverse needs and values.

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Silvopasture

Silvopasture (Latin, silva forest) or wood pasture, now also known as agroforestry, is the practice of combining woodland (trees) and the grazing of domesticated animals in a mutually beneficial way.

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Social forestry in India

Social forestry means the management and protection of forest and afforestation of barren and deforested lands with the purpose of helping environmental, social and rural development.

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Surface mining reclamation in West Virginia

Surface Mining is done all over the United States and this causes growing concerns about the impact on the environment.

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Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education

Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education or (SARE) is a competitive grant program established by the USDA agency, the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service.

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Sustainable design

Sustainable design (also called environmentally sustainable design, environmentally conscious design, etc.) is the philosophy of designing physical objects, the built environment, and services to comply with the principles of social, economic, and ecological sustainability.

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Sustainable development

Sustainable development is the organizing principle for meeting human development goals while at the same time sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services upon which the economy and society depend.

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Sustainable gardening

Sustainable gardening includes the more specific sustainable landscapes, sustainable landscape design, sustainable landscaping, sustainable landscape architecture, resulting in sustainable sites.

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Tamarix

The genus Tamarix (tamarisk, salt cedar) is composed of about 50–60 species of flowering plants in the family Tamaricaceae, native to drier areas of Eurasia and Africa.

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Tecomella

Tecomella undulata is a tree species, locally known as rohida found in Thar Desert regions of India and Pakistan.

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Terra preta

Terra preta (locally, literally "black soil" in Portuguese) is a type of very dark, fertile artificial (anthropogenic) soil found in the Amazon Basin.

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Thar Desert

The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, is a large arid region in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent that covers an area of and forms a natural boundary between India and Pakistan.

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Three Sisters (agriculture)

The Three Sisters are the three main agricultural crops of various Native American groups in North America: winter squash, maize (corn), and climbing beans (typically tepary beans or common beans).

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TIBÁ

The Intuitive Technology and Bio-Architecture School (TIBÁ) is an eco-centre located in the coastal jungle of Brazil (Mata Atlântica), dedicated to demonstrating and teaching sustainable development and 'barefoot' construction techniques.

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Tilia platyphyllos

Tilia platyphyllos is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae (Tiliaceae).

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Tree credits

Tree credits is concept of community-based agroforestry whereby the tree planter/ caretaker is rewarded during several years for her/his climate services.

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Trees for the Future

Trees for the Future is a Maryland-based nonprofit organization founded in 1989 that helps communities around the world plant trees.

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Unimog

Unimog is a range of multi-purpose all-wheel drive medium trucks produced by Daimler (formerly Daimler-Benz) and sold under the brand name Mercedes-Benz.

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University of the Philippines Los Baños College of Forestry and Natural Resources

The University of the Philippines Los Baños College of Forestry and Natural Resources (also referred to as CFNR) is one of the 11 degree-granting units of the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB).

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University of the Virgin Islands

The University of the Virgin Islands (or UVI) is a public, historically black university (HBCU) located in the United States Virgin Islands.

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Urban agriculture

Urban agriculture, urban farming, or urban gardening is the practice of cultivating, processing and distributing food in or around a village, town, or city.

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Uromycladium

Uromycladium is a genus of rust fungi in the family Pileolariaceae.

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Valdivia

Valdivia is a city and commune in southern Chile, administered by the Municipality of Valdivia.

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Vegan organic gardening

Vegan organic gardening and farming is the organic cultivation and production of food crops and other crops with a minimal amount of exploitation or harm to any animal.

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Voices of Transition

Voices of Transition (Cultures en Transition in French) is a 2012 documentary film by film director and producer Nils Aguilar.

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Waipa Foundation

The Waipa Foundation is a non-profit organization which sponsors a program called Aina Ulu (in the Hawaiian language), funded by Kamehameha Schools.

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Wildcrafting

Wildcrafting (also known as foraging) is the practice of harvesting plants from their natural, or 'wild' habitat, primarily for food or medicinal purposes.

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Windbreak

A windbreak (shelterbelt) is a plantation usually made up of one or more rows of trees or shrubs planted in such a manner as to provide shelter from the wind and to protect soil from erosion.

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Wood fuel

Wood fuel (or fuelwood) is a fuel, such as firewood, charcoal, chips, sheets, pellets, and sawdust.

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Woodland

Woodland, is a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade.

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World Agroforestry Centre

The World Agroforestry Centre (a brand name used by the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, ICRAF), is an international institute headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, and founded in 1978 as "International Council for Research in Agroforestry".

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Yale Sustainable Food Project

Yale University's Sustainable Food Program (YSFP) serves as a hub for the study of food systems at Yale.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agroforestry

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