s:950:"TI Agroforestry - a policy imperative for Vietnam 
AU Catacutan, D. 
AU Dao, T. 
AU Le, T. 
AU Simelton, E. 
AB Agroforestry has been traditionally practiced although 
it does not go under the name ‘agroforestry’. The VAC-R-
systems (vuon-ao-chuong-rung or garden-pond-livestock-
forest) expanded largely in the 1960-90s. Taungya is often 
practiced to introduce reforestation by intercropping annu
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al crops with tree seedlings during the first 1-3 years until 
the tree canopy has closed.
‘Integrated agroforestry’ is originally used to denote 
the integration of trees and crops (in one field) such as 
intercropping alley cropping parkland - sometimes includ
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ing livestock. Agroforestry in the northern uplands of Viet 
Nam can at best be described as temporarily integrated in 
transition from segregated mosaic monocultures of maize 
or cassava to timber-tree mono-plantation (typically Aca
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cia Eucalypts Manglietia Melia). 
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