Incluye bibliografía

Foreword -- Abstract -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Glossary -- 1. Adoption of agroforestry / Dean Current, Ernst Lutz, and Sara J. Scherr -- 2. Economic analysis of agroforestry systems: the framers' perspective / Sara J. Scherr -- 3. Economic and institutional analysis of projects promoting on-farm tree planting in Costa Rica / Dean Current -- 4. Economic and institutional analysis of agroforestry projects in El Salvador / Carlos Reiche C. -- 5. Economic and institutional analysis of agroforestry projects in Guatemala / Otto Samayoa Urrea -- 6. Economic and institutional analysis of agroforestry projects in Honduras / Carlos Rodríguez Estrada -- 7. Economic and institutional analysis of agroforestry projects in Nicaragua / Rodolfo Jesús Vieto Morales -- 8. Economic and instituional analysis of agroforestry projects in Panama / Manuel Gómez -- 9. Economic and institutional analysis of agroforestry projects in the Domonican Republic / Abel Hernández -- 10. Economic and institutional agroforestry projects in Haiti / Jon L. Jickling and Thomas A. White -- Bibliography -- Appendix: List of participants at Regional Workshop (funded by UNDP's special cooperation planfor Central America PEC program) -- List of tables -- List of maps

Developing countries are facing major challenges to their rural land use, including deforestation, increasing scarcity of tree products, and environmental degradation on fragile agricultural lands. One of the ways they have responded to these problems is by promoting " agroforestry, " or on-farm tree establishment and management. Public agencies, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and international donors have supported agroforestry development efforts and are considering further substantial investments. But agroforestry activities have been poorly documented and project monitoring has been weak or nonexistent or has addressed administrative concerns only. To answer the need for hard data, an analysis of the costs, benefits, and farmer adoption of agroforestry was undertaken. This was the first large-scale study of farm-level profitability of agroforestry in the tropics and involved empirical work for twenty-one projects in Central America and the Caribbean.