Agroforestry deals with land use systems which are more complex that the usual agronomic experimental designs can cope with. A combination is needed of process-based models, simple summarizing parameters of component interactions, experiments to highlight the interactions and surveys of the real world variation in farmer developed agroforestry systems and possible components. A framework is presented for such a step-by-step approach, in which model development and experimental work go hand in hand.
Publication year
1996
Authors
Language
English
Keywords
agroforestry, alley cropping, design, experimentation, land use, models, research
Geographic
Indonesia
