Agroforestry For Increased Production And Livelihood Security / Sushil Kumar Gupta; Pankaj Panwar & Rajesh Kaushal.

1.Agroforestry - A Sustainable Solution to Address Climate Change Challenges AR Uthappa, SB Chavan, AK Handa, Ram Newaj, Dhiraj Kumar KB Sridhar and OP Chaturvedi 2. Agroforestry in the North-Eastern Himalayas Thiru Selvan and Sanjeev Kumar 3. Temperate Agroforestry Systems in Jammu and Kashmir R Banyal, KN Qaiser and Raja Ali Abidi 4. Potentials and Problems of Agroforestry in Rajasthan Amol Vasishth 5. Agroforestry for Natural Resource Management Pankaj Panwar, R Kaushal, SK Gupta and OP Chaturvedi 6. Home Gardens in India – A Review P Rajendran, S Umesh Kanna and KT Parthiban 7. Tree Improvement for Agroforestry Systems C Buvaneswaran 8. Breeding Behaviour of Jatropha for Bio-Fuel RS Dhillon 9. Poplars and Willows in Agroforestry Dinesh Kumar 10. Horti-Medicinal Agroforestry Systems: A Potential Land Use for Commercial Cultivation of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants NS Thakur, SK Attar and RS Chauhan 11. Directional Effects and Rooting Behaviour of Multipurpose Tree Species in An Agroforestry Land Use on Degraded Riverbed Bouldery Lands KS Dadhwal and VPS Tomar 12. World Perspective on Short-rotation Forestry199 KS Verma and R Kaushal 13. Carbon Sequestration in Plantations Sanjeev K Chauhan, Ritu and Rajni Chauhan 14. Strategies of Carbon Sequestration on Degraded Soils SK Bhardwaj and Pratima Vaidya 15. Species Composition, Biomass Production and Carbon Storage Potential of Agroforestry Systems in Himachal Pradesh B Gupta, S Sarvade and Matber Singh 16. Mycorrhizae of Agroforestry Trees: Structure and Functions Rajesh Kaushal 17. Phytotoxins in Agroforestry: An Overview Vidya Thakur and Millo Tasser 18. Insect-pests in Agroforestry Systems and Their Management RK Gupta 19. Economic Evaluation of Agroforestry Systems Ashok Kumar, VC Pande and BK Shethy 20. Diversity, Distribution, Resource Management of ForageResources and Agroforestry System in the Eastern Himalayas Sudesh Radotra and SK Gupta 21. Agroforestry for Biodiversity Conservation R Kaushal, Pankaj Panwar, S Sarvade, JMS Tomar and OP Chaturvedi 22. Diversity and Importance of Shrubs in Traditional Agroforestry Systems in India NS Thakur, SK Attar, HT Hegde and JB Bhusara 23. Biodiversity Conservation in India- Policy Framework C Kunhikannan 24. Climate Change and Forests: A Simplistic Account of India’s Forestry Sector TP Singh, Rajiv Pandey and Ajay Kumar Gupta 25. Agroforerstry for Improving Soil Biological Health Debarati Bhaduri, P Pramanik, S Ghosh, K Chakraborty and Sharmistha Pal 26. Vegetation Composition and Functional Changes of Tropical Homegardens: Prospects and Challenges Vikas Kumar and Abhishek M Tripathi

The book entitled “Agroforestry for Increased Production and Livelihood Security” would help in understanding the issues and options for small and marginal land holders and ensuring their livelihood through agroforestry. The contributors of the manuscripts have vast working experience in different aspects of agroforestry and from different agro-ecological situations. This compilation would be a ready reference and perfect guide to all those in the profession of teaching agroforestry, environmentalists, policy planners, students and the farmers in general. This book can be used as supplementary reading material in graduate and post graduate courses of forestry, agroforestry and allied biological sciences. This voluminous compilation is likely to boost the cause of development and promotion of usage of agroforestry and encouraging the farmers to take up agroforestry as a sound land use to earn their livelihood.