Tree domestication by the World Agroforestry Centre and Partners in the Peruvian Amazon: lesso ns learned and future prospects .
Year: 2010
Type: report
Abstract: The importance of Inga edulis and its congeners-as a widely planted fruit and fuelwood species, as a common component in cacao and coffee agroforestry, and due to renewed interest in its role in rehabilitation of degraded sites-was recognized long ago by ICRAF and collaborators, but this is not reflected in current research agendas. 26. A comparison of location of research activities and development activities seems to suggest a significant dislocation between the two: agroforestry research in the Peruvian Amazon has been carried out mostly in the Lowland Rainforest (-Selva Baja), whereas agroforestry development activities have taken place mostly in the High Altitude Rainforest (-Selva Alta). This reflects, on the one hand, the predominant location of research institutions and units in the former and, on the other hand, the graver environmental problems and concentration of illicit coca production in the latter.
DOI: 10.5716/wp16850.pdf
Author: J P Cornelius
Institution: World Agroforestry Centre
Language: English
Subfield: Forestry
Domain: Life Sciences
SDGs: Life on land, Zero hunger
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4249627803