Agroforestry Education and Training: Present and Future

Agroforestry Education and Training: Present and Future
Author: P. K. Ramachandran Nair
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9400920954

Interest and initiatives in agroforestry education and training, as in other aspects of agroforestry development, have increased tremendously during the past decade. Coordination of such educational activities was initiated by the first international workshop on education in agroforestry organized by the International Council for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) in Decem ber 1982, at Nairobi, Kenya. Since then, agroforestry has been incorporated into the curricula of many educational and training institutions around the world. Moreover, several institutions have developed entire academic programs specifically in agroforestry. However, most of these activities are still isolated initiatives, without common strategies or philosophies. This second international agroforestry workshop was therefore planned to pro vide a forum for reviewing progress, sharing programs and experiences, and planning and coordinating future directions in agroforestry education and training. The main objectives were to review the on-going programs, to assess the scope of professional education and training in relation to the perceived needs of trained personnel, to recommend guidelines for further program development, and to establish networking among institutions and agencies involved in agroforestry education and training. These proceedings contain the keynote papers, regional/country presenta tions and conclusions and recommendations of the International Workshop on Education and Training in Agroforestry held at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA in December, 1988. The strategy of the workshop was to facilitate focused discussion on identified issues by an invited group of world leaders in agroforestry education and training.

An Introduction to Agroforestry

An Introduction to Agroforestry
Author: P. K. R. Nair
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 524
Release: 1993-07-31
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780792321354

This college-level textbook summarizes the state of current knowledge in the rapidly expanding field of agroforestry. The book, organized into 25 chapters in six sections, reviews the developments in agroforestry during the past 15 years and describes the accomplishments in the application of biophysical (plant and soil related) and socioeconomic sciences to agroforestry. Although the major focus of the book is on the tropics, where the practice and potential of agroforestry are particularly promising, the developments in temperate zone agroforestry are also discussed. This text is recommended for students, teachers, and researchers in agroforestry, farming systems, and tropical land use.

An Introduction to Agroforestry

An Introduction to Agroforestry
Author: P. K. Ramachandran Nair
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1993-08-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9789401116084

Agroforestry has come of age during the past fifteen years. During this period, activities and interest in agroforestry education and training have increased tremendously, as in other aspects of agroforestry development. Today, agroforestry is taught at the senior undergraduate and postgraduate levels in many institutions around the world, either as a separate subject or as a part of the regular curricula of agriculture, forestry, ecology, and other related programs. Although several books on the subject have been published during the past few years, there is still no single publication that is recognized as a textbook. This book is an effort to make up for this deficiency. The need for such a book became obvious to me when I was faced with the task of teaching a graduate-level course in agroforestry at the University of Florida five years ago. Subsequently, the Second International Workshop on Professional Education and Training held here at the University of Florida in December 1988 recommended that the preparation of an introductory textbook be undertaken as a priority activity for supporting agroforestry education world-wide. The various educational and training courses that I have been involved in, and my interactions with several instructors and students of agroforestry in different parts of the world, further motivated me into this venture.

Agroforestry in Agricultural Education

Agroforestry in Agricultural Education
Author: Joachim Boehnert
Publisher:
Total Pages: 202
Release: 1988
Genre: Agricultural education
ISBN:

A dissertation on the potentials of agroforestry. A special chapter is dedicated to agricultural education. It describes a detailed agroforestry training programme, its concepts, objectives and content

Agroforestry Education and Training

Agroforestry Education and Training
Author: P. K. R. Nair
Publisher:
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1990
Genre:
ISBN:

The importance of agroforestry education and training. Agroforestry education and training programs: an overview. Agroforestry education. Agroforestry training: Global trends and needs. Resource development of professional education and training in agroforestry. Agroforestry education and training: an African experience. Education in agroforestry at the University of Melbourne. A brief account of professional education and training in agroforestry in China. Agroforestry education and training in European institutions. Status of agroforestry education in India. The status of professional agroforestry education and training in Indonesia. Agroforestry education and training in Latin America. Expanding opportunities for agroforestry education in the U.S. and Canadian Universities.