Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. History of agroforestry. 3. Traditional agroforestry practice. 4. Ecology of acacinilotica based traditional agroforestry system. 5. Agroforestry and landscape soil enrichment. 6. Status of an indigenous agro-forestry system in changing climate. 7. Science in agroforestry. 8. Agroforestry: a boon for agriculture and forestry. 9. Agroforestry: a new fashion of old tradition. 10. Valuing soil conservation benefits of agroforestry practices. 11. Potentiality of agroforestry for sustainable land management. 12. Agroforestry management, seasonal changes, biodiversity and multitrophic interactions. 13. The diversity of entomophagous and phytophagous coffeemites to agroforestry management.  14. Relation to agro forestry management using herarchical partitioning analyes. 15. Contrasting effects of multitrophic interactions and agroforestry management. 16. Agroforestry and sustainable agriculture in the semi-arid tropics: climate, population and food security. 17. Tropical agroforestry and biodiversity. 18. Multifunctional agro forestry systems for livelihoods: current knowledge and future challenges. Bibliography. Index.

Ever since man began cultivating crops and domesticating animals, he has been practising agroforestry as these activities took place along forest areas. Agroforestry is the system of land use that combines growing and raising of crops and or livestock along with plants that belong to the forest. The land can be used to raise agricultural crops and trees and to rear animals. Some examples are shifting cultivation, growing of tea and coffee under the shade of trees, inter-cropping under coconut trees, and home gardens. (jacket)