Proceedings of the workshop on research methodologies and applications for Pacific Island agroforestry; July 16-20, 1990; Kolonia, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia

Abstract

Includes 19 papers presented at the workshop, covering such topics as sampling techniques and statistical considerations, indigenous agricultural and agroforestry systems, crop testing and evaluation, and agroforestry practices in the Pacific Islands, including Micronesia, Northern Marianas Islands, Palau, and American Samoa.

Titles contained within Proceedings of the workshop on research methodologies and applications for Pacific Island agroforestry; July 16-20, 1990; Kolonia, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia

• Needs and priorities in agroforestry research in the Pacific
• Analysis of an agroforest: the variable radius quadrat method
• Permanent field plot methodology and equipment
• Statistical considerations for agroforestry studies
• Socio-cultural studies of indigenous agricultural systems: the case for applied research
• Economics and agroforestry
• Future networking and cooperation summary of discussion
• A review of traditional agroforestry in Micronesia
• Micronesian agroforestry: evidence from the past, implications for the future
• An indigenous Pacific Island agroforestry system: Pohnpei Island
• Yapese land classification and use in relation to agroforests
• Design and analysis of mixed cropping experiments for indigenous Pacific Islands
• General considerations in testing and evaluating crop varieties for agroforestry systems
• Documentation of indigenous Pacific agroforestry systems: a review of methodologies
• Knowledge systems in agroforestry
• Potentials of integrating spice crops with forestry in the Pacific Islands
• Agroforestry programs and issues in the northern Marianas Islands
• Agroforestry in Palau
• Indigenous agroforestry in American Samoa

Citation

Raynor, Bill; Bay, Roger R. technical coordinators. 1993. Proceedings of the workshop on research methodologies and applications for Pacific Island agroforestry; July 16-20, 1990; Kolonia, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-140. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 86 p