The contents of this document are aimed at local technicians, scientific staff and students of the agricultural college of the University in Belize. It is hoped that they will provide an insight into the concepts that are ...

The contributions of the proceedings of the IUFRO Meeting, Long-Term Observations and Research in Forestry" focus on long term experiments in tropical forests, and on modeling and monitoring aspects. They describe applications ...

In Latin America, the cultivation of Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica) plays a critical role in rural livelihoods, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable development. Over the last 20 years, coffee farms and landscapes ...

We established fast-growing leguminous trees (Erythrina berteroana Urban) in native grass pastures in Costa Rica's Atlantic region to determine the effects of tree pruning and cattle grazing on soil phosphorus availability ...

Although competition of shade trees for water with shaded crops has been a major argument in favor of the removal of shade trees in agroforestry systems, experimental results do not always confirm that shade trees increase ...

Cocoa was used as a fruit in its native range. Cocoa fruits were harvested from “wild” cocoa stands embedded into the forests growing on the high terraces of the Amazon and Orinoco river systems and in the Guiana shield. ...