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Agroforestry
Extension
Resources
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 A031 Forest Land Oriented Resource Envisioning System (FLORES)
Jerome K Vanclay, CIFOR
This is an article about a proposed concept that, if developed, could provide new ways of helping farmers
to envision agroforestry systems.
FLORES, according to the article "aims to improve our understanding of land use patterns in time
and space, especially in forested
landscapes, and to facilitate quantitative analyses of policy options intended to manipulate these patterns.
FLORES is spatially explicit,
and operates at the landscape scale, spanning both forest and agricultural lands. Agricultural lands
and villages form a critical component
of the landscape, and must be modelled to fully understand the processes at work in and near the forest".
The modelling software could
work in a similar way to the computer game SimCity, and be accessible to a range of users, including
the farmer.
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