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	Study programmes 2012-2013 Last update : 25/05/2013
	FORE0014-1   Tropical agroforestry Duration :   24h Th Number of credits :   Required preliminary complements to register in the Advanced Master in Development, Environment and Communities 2 Master in Agricultural Bioengineering, Professional Focus, 2nd year 2 Master in Forests and natural Areas Engineering, Professional Focus, 2nd year 2 Required preliminary complements to register in the Advanced Master in Rural Economics and Sociology 2 Required preliminary complements to Advanced Master in Plant and Animal Resource Management in tropical environment 2 Lecturer :   Jean-Louis Doucet Language(s) of instruction :   French language Organisation and examination :   Teaching in the first semester, review in January Course contents :   The course objective is to propose management methods to reconcile agriculture and forestry in a sustainable manner in tropical areas. It is divided in three main chapters: 1. Definition 2. Agroforestry systems in dry tropical regions 2.1. Multipurpose trees on cropland 2.2. Windbreaks 2.3. Alley cropping 2.4. Sylvopastoralism 3. Agroforestry systems in moist tropical regions 3.1. Shifting cultivation 3.2. Improved fallows 3.3. Home gardens 3.4. Live hedges 3.5. Alley cropping 3.6. Taungya Learning outcomes of the course :   After completing the course the student is expected to : ·Be able to implement agroforestry programs considering ecological and social environment. ·Be able to identify main agroforestry species and their techniques of regeneration. ·Be able to manage agroforestry nurseries. Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :   FORE0035-1. Applied tropical botany Planned learning activities and teaching methods :   This course is mainly based on lectures supplemented with many pictures and films. Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :   Face-to-face: 24h Recommended or required readings :   BOFFA J-M. 2000. Les parcs agroforestiers en Afrique subsaharienne. Cahier FAO Conservation 34. FAO, Rome, 251 p. DICKEN Mc & VERGARA P. 1990. Agroforestry : classification and management. Wiley & sons, 382 p. VERMEULEN C., DOUCET J.-L. 2008. Les premières forêts communautaires du Gabon : Récits d'une expérience pilote. Sainte-Ode, Belgique: Impribeau. http://hdl.handle.net/2268/21913 WEIGEL J. 1994. Agroforesterie pratique. Editions du Ministère de la Coopération, Paris. Assessment methods and criteria :   Written examination (100%) Training(s) :   Organizational remarks :   Contacts :   DOUCET Jean-Louis (Professor) Laboratoire de Foresterie des Régions tropicales et subtropicales Unité de Gestion des Ressources forestières et des Milieux naturels Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech Passage des Déportés, 2 5030 Gembloux + 32 81 622342 jldoucet@ulg.ac.be Home Search by Faculty Search by teacher Search by course code and title
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