The implementation of modern agricultural practices has largely excluded trees from the rural landscape, causing negative environmental impacts. Alley cropping, an agroforestry practice where agricultural crops are grown simultaneously with long-term tree crops, helps mitigate negative environmental impacts and offers a promising land-use alternative to conventional farming for temperate regions. This chapter provides an overview of economic and ecological benefits, challenges and major considerations of implementing these practices within North America. The chapter focuses on a system performance evaluation of a pecan-cotton system in the southern United States and looks ahead to future research trends in this area.

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Yes, you can access Temperate alley cropping systems by Diomy S. Zamora, Samuel C. Allen, Kent G. Apostol, Shibu Jose, Gary Wyatt in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Tecnología e ingeniería & Silvicultura. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher

Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing

Year

2019

ISBN

9781838797751

Topic

Tecnología e ingeniería

Subtopic

Silvicultura

1 Introduction
2 Potential of alley cropping
3 Design considerations
4 Functions/benefits of alley cropping
5 Competition for growth resources
6 Evaluating system performance: the case of the pecan–cotton alley cropping system
7 Future trends and conclusion
8 Where to look for further information
9 References