Farm Forestry in South Asia/edited by N.C. Saxena and Vishwa Ballabh. 1995, 393 p., tables, figs., $33.
Contents: Preface. I. Introduction: 1. Farm forestry and the context of farming systems in South Asia/N.C. Saxena and Vishwa Ballabh. 2. Law, private forestry and markets/Akhileshwar Pathak. 3. Farm forestry: important policy implications--the Indian experience/National Wasteland Development Board. II. Indigenous agroforestry: 4. Farmer initiatives in increasing tree cover in Central Nepal/D.A. Gilmour and M.C. Nurse. 5. Tree cultivation by farmers in Dolakha district, Nepal/Jane Carter. 6. Comparative study of sources of tree products and tree use practices of small farmers in South Asia/Anoja Wickramasinghe. 7. Distribution of tree species on different sized farms in a semi-arid village/N.H. Ravindranath and H.I. Somashekar. 8. The human-ecological background of farm forestry development in Pakistan/Michael R. Dove. III. Farm forestry: socio-economic characteristics: 9. The management of transfer of farm forestry technologies--emerging trends/D. Sen. 10. Trees on farm lands in Uttar Pradesh: socio-economic characteristics of tree planters/N.C. Saxena. 11. Decision making on farm forestry: role of socio-economic and institutional factors/S. Bisaliah. 12. Tree growing as an option for supervision-constrained farmers in north-west India/N.C. Saxena and Ravi Srivastava. 13. An analysis of farm forestry in Gujarat/Kailash Sharma, Vishwa Ballabh and Ajay Pandey. IV. Farm forestry: economic issues: 14. The economics of eucalyptus cultivation in Kolar district, Karnataka/Abdul Aziz. 15. The economics of eucalyptus plantations on degraded lands, West Bengal/Katar Singh and Saumindra Bhattacharjee. 16. Eucalyptus cultivation and crop losses--economic implications/N.C. Saxena. 17. Wood markets for farm eucalyptus in North-west India/N.C. Saxena. References.
"Comprising 14 case studies (besides three introductory chapters) from diverse ecological regions of South Asia, this volume addresses two major themes: traditional agroforestry patterns and the response of farmers to farm forestry programmes.
"Based on fresh empirical data which are used to critically analyse existing theories and approaches to farm forestry, this book covers a wide gamut of issues related to agrarian dynamism and farm forestry programmes from a practical perspective. It will be of immense value to forest research institutes and foresters, development agencies and environmental groups besides policy-makers and those studying agricultural economics." (jacket)