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Living With the Trees of Life: A Practical Guide to Rebooting the Planet through Tropical Agriculture and Putting Farmers First

Publication Year:
2024
Edition:
2nd
Author:
Leakey, Roger R.B.
Publisher:
CAB International
ISBN:
978-1-80-062498-6
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With our world torn by climate change, deforestation, land degradation, hunger, malnutrition, poverty, loss of wildlife habitat, zoonotic pandemics, illegal migration and social injustice, this book seeks to find a practical and pragmatic way forwards.

Based on the author’s extensive experience of tropical agriculture and forestry around the world, as well as his combination of practical and academic agricultural qualifications, the second edition of Living with the Trees of Life presents a unique and positive perspective on resolving these big global issues. It aims to identify principles, strategies, techniques, and skills to find a path through the maze of options for sustainable living in the tropics and subtropics.

The book specifically draws heavily on a single case study which involved working to resolve the failure of tropical and subtropical agriculture to feed, sustain and support the needs of rural communities. To address the ‘big picture’ facing society, the work identified the traditionally important indigenous trees of tropical ecosystems - the trees of life - as a missing component of farming systems. These trees are keystones of the natural environment. Their products and critical ecological a
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Platform:
OvidSP
Publisher:
CAB International
Product Type:
Book
Author:
Leakey, Roger R.B.
ISBN:
978-1-80-062498-6
Specialty:
  • Earth & Geological Sciences
  • Agriculture
  • Agronomy
Language:
English
Edition:
2nd
Pages:
280
Publication Year:
2024
Doody Core Title Score:
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