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CIFOR-ICRAF s’attaque aux défis et aux opportunités locales tout en apportant des solutions aux problèmes mondiaux concernant les forêts, les paysages, les populations et la planète.

Nous fournissons des preuves et des solutions concrètes pour transformer l’utilisation des terres et la production alimentaire : conserver et restaurer les écosystèmes, répondre aux crises mondiales du climat, de la malnutrition, de la biodiversité et de la désertification. En bref, nous améliorons la vie des populations.

CIFOR–ICRAF publishes over 750 publications every year on agroforestry, forests and climate change, landscape restoration, rights, forest policy and much more – in multiple languages.

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Ten years experience with alley farming in Central America

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The first alley cropping trial in Latin America was set up in May of 1982 with Erythrina poeppigiana Walpers O.F. Cook and Gliricidia sepium (Jacq.) WalpMaize, phaseolus beans, and cassava were used as test crops. Bean performance under alley farming was generally superior to maize, significantly outyielding control plots. Although above ground biomass produced by maize was significantly higher under alley farming, maize yield was equivalent to control plots. Starting from 1983, similar trials were set up on farmer's fields using Gliricidia sepium and a maize-bean rotation. Alley farming generally gave both higher mean maize and bean yields and higher yield stability than controls plots. In 1990 additional alley farming trials farming trials were carried out in Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
    Année de publication

    1995

    Auteurs

    World Agroforestry

    Langue

    English

    Mots clés

    yields, alley farming, biomass, multipurpose trees, erythrina poeppigiana, gliricidia sepium

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