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Course name: Fundamentals of Tropical Agroforestry

Course period and place: 8^th of December  to 13^th of December 2003, Ba Vi, Ha Tay, Vietnam

 

Date	Day	Time	Subject	Teachers
8/12	1	Mor.	Subject introduction: Why? What? and How? AF The emergence of AF for Sustainable Agri. Dev’t	NVSO
		Aft.	Shifting cultivation and potential solution: AF systems	NVSO
9/12	2	Mor.	AF concepts and definitions/ AF system classification
		Aft.	Functions of perennial trees in AF systems Functions of Forest in AF systems	NVSO
10/12	3		Description and analysis of different AF systems in the Tropics: Indigenous and Improved AF systems	NVSO
11/12	4		AF approaches, tools: D & D method, FSRD, others	NVSO
12/12	5	Mor.	Soil and Water Conservation strategies in Tropical Uplands	NVSO
		Aft.	Term-paper guidelines and writing exam	NVSO
13/12	6		Field trip to AF areas in Hatay, or Thainguyen	NVSO

 

 

 

List of teachers in the course

 

Name	Adress	Phone/fax	e-mail
Nguyen Van So	118G Huynh van Banh street, Phunhuan, Hochiminh city. Faculty of Forestry, UAF HCMC	Office: Tel: 84-8-8974562; Fax: 84-8-8960713 Home: Tel: 84-8-8462363	Nvso.vnafe@fmail.vnn.vn

 

 

 

 

Literature list:

 

1. Fundamentals of Tropical Agroforestry (Syllabus): prepared by Nguyen Van So, 150 pp

2. Teaching materials: slides, CDs

3. Mac Dickens, K.G. vaø N.T. Vergara. 1990. “Agroforestry: classification and management”. Newyork: John Wiley and Sons. 382 pp.

4.     Nair, P.K.R..,1994 ” Classification of agroforestry systems”. Agroforestry systems 3: 97- 128. 

5.     Burch W.R., J. Kathy Parker , 1992. “ Social Science Applications in Asian Agroforestry” Winrock International, USA.

6.     Gordon J.C. and W.R. Bentley, 1995. “ A Handbook on the Management of Agroforestry Research” Winrock International , USA.

7.     Avery M.E., M.G.R. Cannell, and C. K. Ong “Biophysical Research for Asian Agroforestry” Winrock  International, USA.

8.   Agroforestry Today journals . Publisher: ICRAF, address: PO Box 30677, Nairobi, Kenya.

9.  Karl M. Muller and Johannes Kotschi, 1994:  Sustaining growth: Soil fertility management in tropical smallholdings, CTA, Margraf Verlag, Hohemloher, Str. 2, 97990 Weikershelm, Germany.