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Scientific name for leucaena

  • Leucaena leucocephala (correct)
  • Leucaena laucoceaphala
  • Leaceana leucocephala
  • None

Edible part of leucaena

Leaves ,young pods

Trees planted along boundaries or properties to mark them are called _______________________.

  • Shelterbelts
  • Boundary planting (correct)
  • Avenue planting
  • Cross planting

___age-old land use system that has been practiced for thousands of years by farmers all over the world

<p>Agroforestry (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Cultivating trees ,Agricultural crops and animals in close combination with one another is _______________ practice used over the world.

<p>An old (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Trees as always played an important role in mankind’s survival

<p>True (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

____indicate moving from one plot to is called

<p>Shifting cultivation (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

___ refers to means of destroying the forest land

<p>Slash -and born (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

An area planted to trees for fuel or timber

<p>Woodlot (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Agroforestry is an example of

<p>MLC (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

The world conscious and deliberate as against ___ &__ use of land

<p>ARBITRARY AND HAPHAZARD</p> Signup and view all the answers

Agroforestry was coined in year

<p>1977 (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

ICRAF means

<p>International council for research in agroforestry (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

ICRAF are now know as

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Agroforestry as a collective name for land use system and practice where woody perennials are deliberately integrated with crops and /or animals on the same land management units was proposed in the early years of:

<p>1980s (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

A long narrow area of any type of vegetation usually planted along contours for erosion control is called:

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MLU means

<p>Multiple land use (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Agroforestry is an example of

<p>MALU (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

MLU stands for Multiple Land Use, which refers to the conscious and deliberate use of land for the simultaneous production of two or more goods or services using a good combination.

<p>True (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

There is no ecological and economic interaction between the woody and non-woody components to qualify as agroforestry.

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) defines agroforestry as a dynamic, ecologically-based natural resource management system that,through integration of trees on farms and in agricultural landscapes ,diversifies and sustain production,for increased social, economic, and environmental benefits for land users at all level in year ?

<p>1996 (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Agroforestry always have how many output

<p>Two or more (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

The cycle of agroforestry system is always

<p>More than a year (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Agroforestry systems normally involves how many species of plant (or plant and animal )

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The combination of soil impoverishment arising from soil erosion and nutrient extraction through crop harvest and the invasion of aggressive and hardy weed forces farmers to move to new sites to repeat the process in a system is known as:

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In the year ______ and early ______, there was increasing concern for the forested lands of the tropics.

<p>1960s and 1970s (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

IDRC means

<p>International Development Research Centre (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

The President of IDRC is located in ______.

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Who is the President of IDRC?

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Who is the retire forest forest industrialist in Canada

<p>Mr.John Bene</p> Signup and view all the answers

The internationally financed organization known as the International Council for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) was established in ______.

<p>1977 (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

ICRAF started work in

<p>Hague (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

ICRAF moved to its present headquarters in:

<p>Nairobi, Kenya in 1978 (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

The internationally financed organization became an international center for research in agroforestry ICRAF in year:

<p>1992 (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

CGIAR

<p>Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Between year _____ and _____, the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) compiled an inventory of agroforestry systems and practices being used in developing countries.

<p>1982 and 1987 (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

AFSI means

<p>Agroforestry Systems Inventory (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

AFSI (Agroforestry Systems Inventory) was partly financed by:

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The international finance organization was changed to International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) in 1992, and then in 2002 it was changed to World Agroforestry Centre, but the acronym ICRAF remains unchanged.

<p>True (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

USAID stands for United States Agency for International Development.

<p>True (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

All except one of the following are commonly used criteria to classify and group agroforestry systems and practices

<p>Form (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

There are how many classifications of agroforestry systems based on the type of components.

<p>Three (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

____ and ____ are types of herbaceous plants

<p>Agricultural and Arabic crops</p> Signup and view all the answers

There are ___ major agroforestry system identified

<p>Three (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a system that consists of trees, animals, and/or pasture called?

<p>Silvipastoral /Silvopastoral system (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a system that consists of trees, including shrubs and vines, associated with crops called?

<p>Agrisilviculture system (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a system that consists of trees, crops, and animals or pasture called?

<p>Agrisilvipastoral system (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Combination of fish production with trees is called

<p>Aquaforestry (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Science that deals with and bees and bee keeping

<p>Apiculture (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Sericulture is also know as

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_is characterized by certain type of practice that, taken as a whole, form a dominant land use system in a particular locality and determine its overall ecological composition and management .

<p>Agroforestry system (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

___donate a specific land management unit such as field and a specific arrangement temporarily and \or spartially of components?

<p>Agroforestry practice (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

There both positive +ve and negative -ve interaction among different components of agroforestry

<p>True (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

__refers to an innovation or improvement usually through specific intervention to either modify an existing system or practices or develop a new one

<p>Agroforestry technology. (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In a____, trees and crops are grown together on the same land unit at the same time, interacting with each other.

<p>Simultaneous agroforestry system (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

_____ system are those in which trees and crops occupy the same land unit at different times and interaction between them is indirect

<p>Sequential agroforestry system (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Flashcards

Scientific name for leucaena

Leucaena leucocephala

Edible part of leucaena

Leaves and young pods

Boundary planting

Trees planted along boundaries to mark properties.

Agroforestry

An age-old land use system integrating trees with crops and/or animals.

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Agroforestry practice

Cultivating trees, crops, and animals in close combination.

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Shifting cultivation

Moving from one plot to another.

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Slash-and-burn

Destroying forest land.

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Woodlot

An area planted with trees for fuel or timber.

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Multiple Land Use (MLU)

Conscious and deliberate use of land.

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Vegetative strips

A long, narrow area of vegetation planted along contours for erosion control.

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Agroforestry (ICRAF definition)

A dynamic, ecologically-based natural resource management system integrating trees on farms.

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Shifting cultivation

The combination of soil impoverishment and weed invasion forcing farmers to move to new sites.

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IDRC

International Development Research Centre

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ICRAF

An organization established in 1977 for research in agroforestry.

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CGIAR

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research

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AFSI (Agroforestry Systems Inventory)

An inventory of agroforestry systems and practices used in developing countries.

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USAID

United States Agency for International Development

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Types of herbaceous plants

Agricultural and Arabic crops

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Silvopastoral / Silvipastoral system

Trees, animals, and/or pasture.

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Agrisilviculture system

Trees, shrubs, and vines associated with crops.

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Agrisilvipastoral system

Trees, crops, and animals or pasture.

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Aquaforestry

Combination of fish production with trees.

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Apiculture

Science that deals with bees and bee keeping.

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Sericulture

Silkworm culture

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