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- Agroforester.com - Offers experienced consultation services, trees, seed, and training in tropical and subtropical forestry and agroforestry.
www.agroforester.com
- Agroforestry Discussion List - Topics may include development of agroforestry systems - especially in UK, research and technology transfer. Low level of activity.
www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/agroforestry
- Agroforestry for Farms and Ranches - An introduction to using tree and shrub practices in sustained agricultural systems, by USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service.
www.nhq.nrcs.usda.gov/BCS/forest/tnote1.html
- Agroforestry Research Trust - English nonprofit group conducts research into temperate agroforestry and into all aspects of plant cropping and uses, with a focus on tree, shrub and perennial crops.
www.agroforestry.co.uk
- Association for Temperate Agroforestry - Promotes the wider adoption of agroforestry by landowners in temperate regions of North America. Information about the organization and about agroforestry.
www.missouri.edu/~afta
- ECHO - Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization - Offers useful information and resources to practitioners around the world, with an emphasis on self-sufficiency systems to prevent food shortages. Topics include tropical agriculture and appropriate technology.
www.echonet.org
- Ecological Aspects of Northeastern American Indian Agroforestry - Research article on agroforestry systems used by northeastern American Indians, as inferred from reviews of the accounts of early Anglo-European explorers and settlers, with particular emphasis on those used on upland soils.
www.daviesand.com/Papers/Tree_Crops/Indian_Agroforestry
- Forest, Farm, and Community Tree Network (FACT Net) - FACT Net is the new incarnation of the Nitrogen Fixing Tree Association (NFTA), which provides information on the use of nitrogen fixing and multipurpose trees.
www.winrock.org/forestry/factnet.htm
- ForestInformation.com - Offers educational content on sustainable forest management from Canadian, U.S. and United Nations forestry resources. Operated by forestry companies and industry associations. Includes a kids and teachers section.
forestinformation.com
- Forestry AgNIC: Agroforestry - Collection of internet links in agroforestry.
forestry.lib.umn.edu/agnic/agroforestry.phtml
- International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) - ICRAF conducts strategic and applied research, in partnership with national agricultural research systems, for more sustainable and productive land use.
www.cgiar.org/icraf
- LEUCNET News - LEUCNET is an informal network of scientists, extensionists and tree growers who share a common interest in improving the productivity and utility of leucaena. The newsletter of the International Leucaena Research and Development Network.
users.ox.ac.uk/~dops0024
- Management of Organic Inputs in Soils of the Tropics Homepage - Management of Organic Inputs in Soils of the Tropics (MOIST) is a rich source of information on green manure/cover crops and hosts an active email discussion group on green manures/cover crops.
ppathw3.cals.cornell.edu/mba_project/moist/home2.html
- Real Solutions for Regional Development through Agrosilvapastoral Systems - Promoting agroforestry staple crops -- particularly Brosimum alicastrum (Mayan breadnut) and its edible relatives -- to substitute for forest-destructive commodities such as field crops and pasture.
therainforest.com
- Sustainable Harvest International - Providing farmers and communities in the tropics with long-term assistance implementing environmentally and economically sustainable technologies.
www.sustainableharvest.org
- The Australian Master TreeGrower Program - An 8 weeks educational program for landholders that can make an important contribution to the development of farm forestry. University of Melbourne.
www.mtg.unimelb.edu.au
- Trees for the Future - Trees for the Future is a non-profit organization initiating and supporting agroforestry self-help projects in cooperation with groups and individuals in developing countries.
www.treesftf.org
- University of Missouri Center for Agroforestry - Foci are interdisciplinary research, education, training and demonstration. The aim is to initiate, coordinate and enhance agroforestry activities to meet environmental, social and economic land management needs.
agebb.missouri.edu/umca
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