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Book reviews Agroforestry Systems 3: 305. © 1985 Martinus Ni/hoff/Dr W. Junk Publishers, Dordrecht. Printed in the Netherlands. Browse in Africa. The current state of knowledge. Edited by H.N. Le Hou6rou. 1980. 491 pp. International Livestock Centre for Africa. Available from ILCA, P.O. Box 5689, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Some fourty papers, presented at the International Symposium on Browse in Africa, Addis Ababa, April 8-12, 1980, and about ten other submissions have been arranged in a volume, covering the whole subject in a outstanding and comprehensive way. As indi- cated in the introduction, 'the importance of browse trees and shrubs, especially in the arid, semi-arid and montane zones, is increasingly acknowledged throughout the world today'. Silvo-pastoral systems within agroforestry are therefore attracting more attention, scientific research and political support in a number of countries and within inter- national organizations. Mutual benefits for both, the pastoral and the forestry parts, are being (re)-discovered, highlited and further developed. 'Browse in Africa' fills an important gap of knowledge for all those concerned with improving sllvo-pastoral land- use, specially in fragile eco-systems, and in fact, a great many of the statements may largely be transferred to similar regions of other continents. It is therefore that a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Agroforestry Systems Springer Journals

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Agroforestry Systems 3: 305. © 1985 Martinus Ni/hoff/Dr W. Junk Publishers, Dordrecht. Printed in the Netherlands. Browse in Africa. The current state of knowledge. Edited by H.N. Le Hou6rou. 1980. 491 pp. International Livestock Centre for Africa. Available from ILCA, P.O. Box 5689, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Some fourty papers, presented at the International Symposium on Browse in Africa, Addis Ababa, April 8-12, 1980, and about ten other submissions have been arranged in a volume, covering...
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Life Sciences; Forestry; Agriculture
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0167-4366
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10.1007/BF00046962
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Agroforestry Systems 3: 305. © 1985 Martinus Ni/hoff/Dr W. Junk Publishers, Dordrecht. Printed in the Netherlands. Browse in Africa. The current state of knowledge. Edited by H.N. Le Hou6rou. 1980. 491 pp. International Livestock Centre for Africa. Available from ILCA, P.O. Box 5689, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Some fourty papers, presented at the International Symposium on Browse in Africa, Addis Ababa, April 8-12, 1980, and about ten other submissions have been arranged in a volume, covering the whole subject in a outstanding and comprehensive way. As indi- cated in the introduction, 'the importance of browse trees and shrubs, especially in the arid, semi-arid and montane zones, is increasingly acknowledged throughout the world today'. Silvo-pastoral systems within agroforestry are therefore attracting more attention, scientific research and political support in a number of countries and within inter- national organizations. Mutual benefits for both, the pastoral and the forestry parts, are being (re)-discovered, highlited and further developed. 'Browse in Africa' fills an important gap of knowledge for all those concerned with improving sllvo-pastoral land- use, specially in fragile eco-systems, and in fact, a great many of the statements may largely be transferred to similar regions of other continents. It is therefore that a

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