Agroforestry for Degraded Landscapes

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Agroforestry for Rehabilitation of Degraded Landscapes: Achieving Livelihood and Environmental Security.- Chapter 3. Agroforestry to Enhance Livelihood Security in Africa:  Research Trends and Emerging Challenges.- Chapter 4. Potential of Agroforestry to Enhance Livelihood Security in Africa.- Chapter 5. Agroforestry Systems for Arid Ecologies in India.- Chapter 6. Land Use Management by Small Holders' Households as a Promising Way for Synergies Between the Rio Conventions: Case Study in Semi-arid Areas of Cameroon.- Chapter 7. Impacts of Climate Change on Ecosystem Services of Agroforestry Systems in the West African Sahel: A Review.- Chapter 8. Agroforestry Systems for Improving Nutrient Recycling and Soil Fertility on Degraded Lands.- Chapter 9. Sustainability of Faidherbia albida-based Agroforestry in Crop Production and Maintaining Soil Health.- Chapter 10. Characterization of Faidherbia albida and Prosopis africana Trees Wood Anatomy and Response to Climate Variability Using Dendrochronology in the Sahelian Agroforestry Parklands.- Chapter 11. Potential of Gliricidia-based Agroforestry Systems for Resource Limited Agro-ecosystems.- Chapter 12. Lac-based Agroforestry System for Degraded Land.- Chapter 13. The Role of Insects in Enhancing Ecosystem Services of Tree-based Systems on Degraded Lands.- Chapter 14. Socio-economic and Policy Issues in Relation to Adoption of Agroforestry in Africa.- Chapter 15. Agroforestry Options for Degraded Landscapes in Southeast Asia.- Chapter 16. Community-based Peat Swamp Restoration through Agroforestry in Indonesia.- Chapter 17. Agroforestry to Sustain Island and Coastal Agriculture in Scenario of Climate Change: Indian Perspective.- Chapter 18. Incentivizing Hill Farmers for Promoting Agroforestry as an Alternative to Shifting Cultivation in North-East India.- Chapter 19. Promoting

Jagdish Chander Dagar, Former Assistant Director General and Emeritus Scientist at ICAR, has long been actively involved in the areas of agroforestry, natural resources management, biosaline agriculture, rehabilitation of degraded lands, ethnobotany, plant ecology, environmental sciences, biodiversity, climate change and sustainable agriculture, as can be seen in his more than 300 research papers, published in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. He has been conferred with several awards and honours and is a Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences and several other professional societies. He has also been a consultant to the UN, CIMMYT, and Haryana Forest Department. Dr Dagar is also Chief Editor of the Journal Soil Salinity & Water Quality.

S. R. Gupta, former Professor of Botany, Dean of Life Sciences, and Emeritus Fellow of the UGC, is a nationally and internationally recognised ecologist who has taught at the Department of Botany and at the Institute of Environmental Studies at Kurukshetra University, India. She has made significant contributions to better understanding the biodiversity and ecosystem functions of grasslands, forest ecosystems, soil biodiversity, ecological rehabilitation of salt-affected soils, carbon sequestration in agroforestry systems, and the sustainability of conservation agricultural systems. The author of 98 research papers published in national and international journals, she is also a Fellow of the National Institute of Ecology and is affiliated with the Institute of Environmental Studies.


Demel Teketay Fanta received his MSc in Plant Taxonomy from Reading University (UK) and PhD in Forest Vegetation Ecology from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. He is currently serving as a Professor of Forest Sciences and founding Dean of the Faculty of Natural Resources at Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (BUAN). He