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 …

Products and services provided by trees in forests and farmland support the needs and
promote the wellbeing of hundreds of millions of people in the tropics. Value depends on …

The relationship between tropical forests and global climate change has so far focused on
mitigation, while much less emphasis has been placed on how management activities may …

Peach palm (Bactris gasipaes) is a multi-purpose palm tree native to tropical Latin America,
which is predominantly cultivated by smallholders in agroforestry systems. The fruits are rich …

There is a growing call for inventories that evaluate geographic patterns in diversity of plant
genetic resources maintained on farm and in species' natural populations in order to …

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 …

Tree species in agroforestry ecosystems contribute to the livelihoods of rural communities
and play an important role in the conservation of biodiversity. Unless agroforestry …

Agroforestry covers between 200 and 357 million hectares in Latin America, including 14–
26 million hectares in Central America and 88–315 million hectares in South America …

In this chapter, we discuss the principal uses of baobab (Adansonia digitata), detar
(Detarium microcarpum), nere (Parkia biglobosa), tamarind (Tamarindus indica), shea tree …