Talk:Agroforestry

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This article needs a lot of expansion. Agroforestry is an incredibly diverse subject, encompassing everything from windbreaks to improved fallows to fodder trees to living fences... I will be glad to work on it in the next few months, but don't have time to do so right now.

The second section of the article, on biomass for ethanol production, is misleading. Tree plantations are not considered "agroforestry." Agroforestry refers to the integration of trees with annual crops, livestock, or some other non-tree component. A willow plantation is not agroforestry; it is just forestry.

[edit] James Sholto Douglas

I think Douglas and his book, 'Forest Farming' (978-0946688302) deserve a spot in here somewhere - not sure where yet though? 89.240.2.60 22:23, 6 March 2007 (UTC)