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Agroforestry education and training: an African experience

Publisher: Springer
Year: 1990
Tongue: English
Weight: 452 KB
Volume: 12
Category: Article
ISSN: 0167-4366
DOI: 10.1007/bf00055575

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✦ Synopsis

Agroforestry in its broadest sense has been practiced in Africa for a long time. The most common traditional form, shifting cultivation, has largely broken down due to pressures from the increasing population. Research at international centers focuses both on the development of new and the improvement of traditional systems. A main constraint is the shortage of professional and technical staff and a lack of knowledge concerning agroforestry by policy makers. Therefore, a great emphasis has been placed on education. The Institute of Renewable Natural Resources, Ghana, has begun a program in Agroforestry Education and Training. This example is used to illustrate one approach to increasing agroforestry education at African institutions.

Syllabi for courses 1. AF.501: Concepts and practices of agroforestry I 1. Global aspects of agroforestry land-use: Systems, classification of agroforestry; soils/

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