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Agroforestry
Extension
Resources
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 A008 Manual Arboles de Centroamerica
Jose Cordero Salvado and David Boshier (Editors) 2004. DFID Forestry Research Program (FRP)
Project R7588. Printed book 600pp, CD-rom, and website. Spanish
This is an excellent example of forestry / agroforestry extension resources designed to enable extension
workers prepare their own
material for farmers working in all agroecological zones in Central America. It is based on several
decades of work in the field in the region,
and is applicable to other similar Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America, and could be of value
elsewhere in the world. There is a
printed manual, but the CD-ROM is most readily available, containing all the text and a large database
of many hundreds of illustrations
which can be cut and pasted as required (with limited copyright restrictions). All electronic material
is available from a website, which will
serve as a means to update material, and allow users to keep in contact with one another. There are
databases, searchable in electronic
format, on common names, synonyms, selection of species, and illustrations.
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For availability of the printed manual, and to obtain the CD-ROM, contact: Mr. Jesús Cordero,
Oxford Forestry Institute, Department of
Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Rd. OXFORD OX1 3RB, UK. Tel. +44 (0)1865 275130, Fax:
+44 (0)1865 275074. E-mail
jesus.cordero@plants.ox.ac.uk
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The website address is:
www.arbolesdecentroamerica.info
. All CD-ROM files can be read, searched and downloaded from this site. To
use the site, it is necessary to register first on-line (free).
  
Contents:
Introducción: un manual para ayudarles
Capítulo 1 - Guías de uso para el extensionista
Capítulo 2 - Clima y suelos de la Región
Capítulo 3 - Factores clave para el éxito de programas de reforestación y regeneración natural
Capítulo 4 - Productos, mercado y comercialización
Capítulo 5 - El manejo del bosque natural
Capítulo 6 - Establecimiento y manejo de árboles en sistemas agroforestales
Capítulo 7 - Plantaciones forestales de pequeña escala
Capítulo 8 - El valor de la diversidad y la calidad de la semilla
Capítulo 9 - Cómo se obtuvo el listado de 199 especies del Manual
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