sources of financial transfers from cities to the countryside and from the international community to the rural community include payment for carbon fixation by forest biomass and other plant life systems ; conservation of water sources ...

THE EFFICIENCY OF AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS IN RELATION WITH ECOLOGY IN THE TROPICS From the ecologic viewpoint , yearly ... tropics more efficiently , while at the same time producing a greater quantity of biomass and useful food product .

Assessments of trade - offs among various production systems in terms of different types of biomass components ... While development continues , the MIRA system is functional and contributing already in many ways to improved decisions .

Because the system proposed here involves the plantation of selected trees in the fallows , initially some capital will be needed to cover 2-3 years ... In : Forest Resources and Wood - based Biomass Energy as Rural Development Assets .

As a result , the thrust of information - gathering before intervening a forest may no longer be to sift the merchantable from the biomass , but becomes instead one of identifying the stage of development of the forest type ...

Forest Ecology and Management 148 : 185-206 . Haggar , J ; Ayala , A ; Diaz , B ; Reyes , C. 2001. Participatory design of agroforestry systems : developing farmer participatory research methods in Mexico . Development in Practice 11 ...

... payment for carbon fixation by forest biomass and other plant life systems ; conservation of water sources for human consumption and electrical production ; conservation of biodiversity for scientific research and the development of ...

While the system is unprecedented and therefore risky , it is based on solid experience in forest ecology . Given the record of wasteful forest exploitation and conversion of potentially valuable forest lands into poor pasture ...

While the system is unprecedented and therefore risky , it is based on solid experience in forest ecology . Given the record of wasteful forest exploitation and conversion of potentially valuable forest lands into poor pasture ...

Roots biomass and distribution Root systems in agroforestry can be described as a spatial and temporal array of biomass ... This spatial distribution is consistent with the assumption that trees improve capture or utilisation of growth ...