The cultivation of indigenous and exotic fruits for sub-Saharan Africa's domestic markets can
bring increased revenues for smallholders and improve the diets of local consumers. There …

Climate change adaptation and mitigation are usually the objects of separate projects, but in
this review we argue that in agricultural contexts, there are often technical and financial …

More than 420 research papers, involving more than 50 tree species, form the literature on
agroforestry tree domestication since the 1992 conference that initiated the global …

In a world increasingly challenged by the need to integrate and understand highly
specialized knowledge in a multidisciplinary way, this book is innovative and perhaps …

Main conclusion Over the last 25 years, the process of domesticating culturally-important,
highly-nutritious, indigenous food-tree species. Integrating these over-looked …

A review of tree domestication principles, practices and case studies illustrates the
importance of a methodological approach to domestication. Domestication of new species …

The tree popularly known in Brazil as mulateiro or pau-mulato (Calycophyllum spruceanum
(Benth.) K. Schum.) is deeply embedded in the herbal medicine of the Amazon region …

Garcinia kola, known as bitter kola, is a promising multipurpose fruit tree from tropical forests
in West and Central Africa. Despite the popularity of the species in folk medicine, very little is …

Bolaina (Guazuma crinita Mart., Malvaceae) and capirona (Calycophyllum spruceanum
(Benth.) Hook. f. ex K. Schum., Rubiaceae) are fast-growing Amazonian timber trees. In …

Some tree improvement programs in Africa use nursery tests to investigate genetic and
geographic variation in growth, but do they lead to the same conclusions as field tests? We …