Until now global models of crop production have ignored trees, despite significant tree cover on much of the world’s agricultural land. This is now changing thanks to a new tree-crop modeling initiative. ICRAF and partners in the ACIAR-funded project ‘Trees-for-Food Security’ have just published a landmark paper reviewing the modeling of tree-crop interactions at field scale (Luedeling et al 2016).
Publication year
2016
Authors
Smethurst, P. J.; Huth, N.I.; Masikati, P.; Fainges, J.; Muthuri, C.W.; Sinclair, F.
Language
English
Keywords
agroforestry systems, food security, agricultural land, crop production
Geographic
Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda
