Multifunctional Agriculture - 9780128053560

Multifunctional AgricultureAchieving Sustainable Development in Africa\nAuthor(s): Roger Leakey\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc, United States\nImprint: Academic Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9780128053560, 978-0128053560\nSynopsis\nIn a world increasingly challenged by the need to integrate and understand highly specialized knowledge in a multidisciplinary way, this book is innovative and perhaps unique in addressing this challenge. ?It focuses on ideas, strategies, techniques and practices spanning many disciplines?at the interface of agriculture with: forestry, horticulture, plant physiology, genetics, ecology, soil science, food science, economics, and the social and environmental sciences as delivered by intensified and enriched agroforestry. Multifunctional Agriculture?addresses this complexity, using case studies and insights from the needs of African farmers whose livelihoods are constrained by complex interactions between social, environmental and econ?