Agroforestry is a traditional practice of integrating trees with crops and/or animals. Agroforestry is gaining increasing recognition as a way to restore degraded sloping lands, to contribute to food security and for economic development in DPR Korea. Agroforestry can greatly help to transform landscapes where trees are a keystone of productivity and thus deliver multiple benefits for humans and ecosystems. This guide contains a set of technical illustrations that provide practical, user-friendly information for planning a variety of agroforestry practices. It is particularly concerned with field-level interventions for sloping land management, an issue of concern in DPR Korea.
Agriculture is crucial for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), involving approximately 50% of the economically active population and contributing an estimated 25% to the gross national product. However, agricultural production has remained low due to soil degradation and...
This manual sets out the steps to guide rural advisory and agricultural extension workers to successfully integrate trees in rice-field and associated farms and landscapes using practical tools for implementing agroforestry practices on farms in Southeast Asia. Developed in collaboration...
This training document provides technical facilitators and producers with the tools to develop experimental training in agroecological silvopastoral systems and to sensitize producers in the recognition of the importance of trees and shrub species as integral component of the silvopastoral...
As a party to the Convention on Biodiversity (CBO), there is a need for Malaysia to implement its commitment to CBO's objectives on conserving biological diversity, sustainable utilisation of natural resources, and fair and equitable benefit sharing deriving from the...
This presentation outlines the following topics:a) Changing Context of Agricultural Technology Transfer: Emerging Realities in Asia-PacifiC; b) Technology Transfer within the Agricultural Innovation System; c) Agricultural Extension in Agricultural Innovation System; d) Supply Chain Management Approach and the Role of Extension; e) Major Areas for...