Author Xu. J., Mercado, A., He, J. & Dawson, I (eds.)

Year of publication 2013

This guide contains a set of technical illustrations that provide practical, user-friendly information for planning a variety of agroforestry practices. It is particularly concerned with field-level interventions for sloping land management, an issue of concern in DPR Korea. This guide is written for forest rangers, county forest board members and agroforestry extension workers. Each illustration introduces a set of principles and planning procedures on how agroforestry planning can proceed for the restoration of degraded sloping lands and for the incorporation of trees into agricultural landscapes. This guide does not provide ready-made recipes, but offers advice on how to integrate trees and agroforestry practices into land restoration in general, and in sloping land management in particular, in DPR Korea. Its aim is to help extension workers and farmers formulate their own knowledge, innovations and practices for the specific conditions they face. The guide also takes stock of good practice and success stories from locally and aboard, as well as lessons learnt from failures. The guide is designed as an entry point primarily for field practitioners. In cases where agroforestry is completely absent in current field practices, it may be used to initiate a participatory planning process for the incorporation of trees in farms and sloping lands. The purpose is to assist in sustainable economic development and environmental protection in DPR Korea.