AGROFORESTRY INFORMATION & TRAINING MATERIALS
 
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Choose from the following sections
   
Distance Agroforestry Training Resources Tree Nursery Establishment and Management
Agroforestry Technologies Seeds - Storage, Harvesting, and Management
Common Agroforestry Species Outplanting
Books and Articles Problems with Eucalyptus
Tree Biology and Ecology  
   
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To enroll in our distance agroforestry training program, email training@treesftf.org
 
Distance Agroforestry Training Resources (PDF files)
Acacias for Rural, Industrial and Environmental Development
English Barestem Presentation  
Global CoolingTM Answer eBook - 2nd edition
Jojoba  
Jatropha eLearning lesson (large file, be patient)
Leucaena, Promising Forage and Tree Crop for the Tropics
Moringa Presentation  
Neem  
The Winged Bean, A High-Protein Crop For The Tropics
Tree Nursery Practices Book  
Vetiver Grass-The Hedge Against Erosion  
 
Agroforestry Technologies
Alley-Cropping
Live Fences
Water Erosion Control: Contour Planting, Vetiver, Rock bundles
How to Build and Use an A-Frame
Windbreaks
Firebreaks
Woodlots
Cashew Intercropping
Uses of Leucaena
 
Common Agroforestry Species used by TREES (from World Agroforestry Center, Kenya)
Acacia angustissima
Acacia mangium
Acacia nilotica
Acacia senegal
Albizzia julibrissin
Albizzia lebbek
Azadirachta indica
Balanites aegyptiaca
Calliandra calothyrsus
Cassia fistula
Delonix regia
Faidherbia albida (Acacia albida)
Gleditsia triacanthos

Gliricidia sepium
Grevillea robusta
Leucaena collinsii
Leucaena leucocephala
Moringa oleifera
Paraserianthes falcataria (Albizzia falcataria)
Prosopis juliflora
Robinia pseudoacacia
Senna Siamea (Cassia Siamea)
Sesbania sesban
Sesbania grandiflora
Ziziphus mauritiana

 
Books and Articles (PDF files, copies available at the Ruppe Center)

Challenges of elearning in Agriculture
Earthbird magazine

Good Tree Nursery Practices (Booklet)
Good Tree Nursery Practices (Spanish)
Important Trees of Haiti

More Water for Arid Lands
Neem
Our Trees and Forests
Vetiver
 
Tree Biology and Ecology
Benefits of Trees
 
 
Tree Nursery Establishment and Management
How to Seed a Bareroot Bed (English PDF) (French PDF) (Creole PDF) (Spanish PDF)
Outplanting barestem seedlings (English) (French PDF) (Creole PDF) (Spanish PDF)
 
Seeds Overview
Collection and Storage
Pre-Treatment
 
Outplanting
Outplanting Guidelines
Protection of Seedlings
Caring for Seedlings
 

Problems with Eucalyptus

Problems with Eucalyptus
Why Not Eucalyptus

 
 
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