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Agroforestry and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.- Systems, Practices, and Components.- Hardwood silvopasture management in North America.- Riparian forest buffers in agroecosystems — lessons learned from the Bear Creek Watershed, central Iowa, USA.- Short-rotation woody crops and phytoremediation: Opportunities for agroforestry?.- Windbreaks in North American agricultural systems.- Organic farming and agroforestry: Alleycropping for mulch production for organic farms of southeastern United States.- Mechanized land preparation in forest-based fallow systems: The experience from Eastern Amazonia.- Medicinal and aromatic plants in agroforestry systems.- Forest gardens as an ‘intermediate’ land-use system in the nature—culture continuum: Characteristics and future potential.- The enigma of tropical homegardens.- Biological and Ecological Issues.- Nature vs. nurture: managing relationships between forests, agroforestry and wild biodiversity.- Tree domestication in tropical agroforestry.- Managing biological and genetic diversity in tropical agroforestry.- Why extensive research and development did not promote use of peach palm fruit in Latin America.- Exploiting the potential of indigenous agroforestry trees: Parkia biglobosa and Vitellaria paradoxa in sub-Saharan Africa.- Ecological interactions, management lessons and design tools in tropical agroforestry systems.- Interspecific interactions in temperate agroforestry.- Ecology of tree intercropping systems in the North temperate region: Experiences from southern Ontario, Canada.- Agroforestry as an approach to minimizing nutrient loss from heavily fertilized soils: The Florida experience.- Carbon sequestration: An underexploited environmental benefit of agroforestry systems.- Economics, Marketing, and Adoption.- Agroforestry development: An environmental economic perspective.- Adoption of agroforestry innovations in the tropics: A review.- Scaling up the impact of agroforestry: Lessons from three sites in Africa and Asia.- Trees of prosperity: Agroforestry, markets and the African smallholder.- Building opportunities for small-farm agroforestry to supply domestic wood markets in developing countries.- Markets and marketing strategies for agroforestry specialty products in North America.- Peasants, agroforesters, and anthropologists: A 20-year venture in income-generating trees and hedgerows in Haiti.- Knowledge Integration.- Computer-based tools for decision support in agroforestry: Current state and future needs.- Anthropogenic grasslands in Southeast Asia: Sociology of knowledge and implications for agroforestry.- Agroforestry research for development in India: 25 years of experiences of a national program.- Public/private partnerships in agroforestry: the example of working together to improve cocoa sustainability.- List of Reviewers.

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Dr. P.K.R. Nair is Professor of Agroforestry at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA and has been a founder-scientist at the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya for about 10 years. He is a leading world authority and a pioneering researcher and educator in agroforestry.

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