This section of the Library has been structured as follows: 

 

Database of Documents

Agroforestry documents is divided in six parts:

• Fundamentals of agroforestry
• Best practices and examples
• Desertification in Latin America
• Water management
• Forestry
• Stakeholders involvent

According to the different ecosystems, some agroforestry species have been reported by the Latin American countries. These species are supposed to have a very high potential in the development of agroforestry systems, quite apart from the fact that their uses and their demand can be considered as a strategy to improve the livelihood of farmers and rural community in the targeted regions of the WAFLA project.
Two categories have been created in order to make easier the access to the information. These categories are:

• The Latin American country that has reported the species.
• The family that the species belongs to, according to its taxonomic identification.

These are the specific location where the species above mentioned belong or should belong to. According to the particular ecosystem, one or more agroforestry practices are suggested in order to enhance the rural development of the targeted regions of the WAFLA project.

The process of evaluation of the traditional agroforestry practices comprised of two moments or stages: first a group of activities were carried out, mainly from the field, to obtain information that allowed to characterize the agroforestry systems and the type of practices that are carried out in them; a second stage constitutes the systematizing and documentation of the registered information, to then carry out a comparative analysis, through agreed criteria, what allowed to determine what the best traditional agroforestry practices are.