FORESTRY
AGROFORESTRY
Question
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Water supply, fences, and access tracks
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Water supply
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Fencing
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Water supply and access tracks
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Detailed explanation-1: -Agroforestry was formally outlined in the early 20th century by American economic geographer J. Russell Smith in his book Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture (1929). Smith viewed tree-based “permanent agriculture” as a solution to the destructive erosion that often followed the cultivation of sloping lands.
Detailed explanation-2: -The three main components of agroforestry-animals, crops and trees-can be combined in numerous spatial and temporal arrangements and for different functions, creating thus many different kinds of systems.
Detailed explanation-3: -Agroforestry is the collective term for land-use systems and technologies in which woody perennials (e.g. trees, shrubs, palms or bamboos) and crops or grasses and/or animals are used deliberately on the same parcel of land in some form of spatial and temporal arrangement (Choudhury and Jansen, 1999).