Halophytes for Utilizing and Restoring Coastal Saline Soils of India: Emphasis on Agroforestry Mode
Agricultural salinity and sodicity of soils and irrigation waters are an environmental problem in the arid and semi-arid regions of the world. While this problem is natural in its genesis in the coastal regions, it occurs primarily due to anthropogenic ac
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forestry for Degraded Landscapes Recent Advances and Emerging Challenges - Vol. 1
Agroforestry for Degraded Landscapes
Jagdish Chander Dagar • Sharda Rani Gupta • Demel Teketay Editors
Agroforestry for Degraded Landscapes Recent Advances and Emerging Challenges - Vol. 1
Editors Jagdish Chander Dagar Natural Resource Management Division Indian Council of Agricultural Research New Delhi, India
Sharda Rani Gupta Department of Botany Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra, Haryana, India
ICAR-Central Soil Salinity Research Institute Karnal, Haryana, India Demel Teketay Department of Range and Forest Resources Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (BUAN) Gaborone, Botswana
ISBN 978-981-15-4135-3 ISBN 978-981-15-4136-0 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4136-0
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Foreword
Agroforestry, historically, is as old as agriculture when domestication of both trees and herbaceous plants in the vicinity of each other was practiced by early humans in ancient times. Incidentally, there are several examples of forest and fruit trees mentioned in ancient literature throughout the world. Recognizing the ability of agroforestry systems to address multiple problems and deliver multiple benefits, most of the scientific achievements in agroforestry research developments took place only during the last three decades. Now, it is considered a problem-solving science and can both sequester carbon and produce a range of economic, environmental, and socioeconomic benefits. Approximately more than 1.2 billion people (about 20% of the world’s population) depend directly on agrofor
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