Plants and Plants Handbook
Issue 5 - June 1999
Cultivating Trees
Editors: Gary J. Martin, Agnes Lee Agama and Roger R.B.Leakey

Editorial

• The evolution of agroforestry systems
• Speaking of jargon
• Handbook description
• Leaves of papers: letters to the editors

International Programs

• International Centre for Research in Agroforestry
• Edinburgh Centre for Tropical Forests
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit
• United States National Agroforestry Center
• Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

National Programs

• Centro de Investigación Agrícola Tropical, Bolivia
• Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Philippines
• National Tree Seed Programme, Tanzania

Resource Centers

• Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
• Laboratoire de Botanique Tropicale, University of Montpellier II
• University of the Philippines Los Baños Agorofrestry Institute

NGOs

• Agromisa Foundation
• Apoyo para el Campesino-Indígena del Oriente Boliviano
• Association for Temperate Forestry

Networks

• African Network for Agroforestry Education
• Forest, Farm and Community Tree Network
• Asia-Pacific Agroforestry Network
• HIDA/MYRADA Agroforestry Network
• Rede Brasileira Agroforestal
• Red Agroforestal Ecuatoriana
• Society of Agroforesters
• Agroforestry Research Networks for Africa

Viewpoints to consider ... Issues to explore

• Cultivating knowledge
• Rehabilitation of degraded pasture in Amazonia
• Farms, trees and farmers
• More people, less erosion

Multimedia Center

• Multimedia Center

Interviews

• Jonathan C. Okafor
• Anthony B. Cunningham

Advice from the Field

• Agroforestry: learning as we go in Africa
• Playing the mbao game

Ethnobotanical Portraits

• Backgrounds
• Profiles
• What is this?

Keywords, Acronyms and Contributors

• Finding your way: an index of keywords and phrases
• Do you speak this language? A directory of acronyms

Parting Words

• Back, current and coming issues
• Who supports the Handbook?
• The editorial team