Incremental Agroforestry: Enriching Pacific Landscapes

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1997
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Clarke, William C.
Thaman, Randolph R.
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University of Hawai'i Press
Center for Pacific Islands Studies
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Whether deforestation results from logging or from conversion of forest land to agriculture, one of its costs is the loss of the natural biodiversity of forest plants and animals. Further loss of forests and their embodied biodiversity is inevitable in many Pacific islands. Countering this bleak scenario are possibilities to protect and increase “agrobiodiversity” in agricultural, village, and urban landscapes even though those landscapes, too, are often now undergoing simplification and degradation. It is suggested that the process of “incremental agroforestry”— defined as the systematic protection and enrichment of arboreal biodiversity within the context of existing agricultural landscapes—would complement the laudable international and local initiatives to protect biodiversity in indigenous forests and benefit communities that depend on humanized biodiversity for their economic and cultural well-being.
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agrodeforestation, biodiversity loss, incremental agroforestry, landscape simplification, Oceania -- Periodicals.
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Clarke, W. C., and R. R. Thaman. 1997. Incremental Agroforestry: Enriching Pacific Landscapes. The Contemporary Pacific 9 (1): 121-48.
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