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Headquarters Activities
2004

 

Headquarters Team

P.K. Nair, M. Bannister, S. Allen

In addition to the routine management and institutional linkage activities performed by CSTAF headquarters staff, the following took place since our last annual meeting:

  • PK Nair continued to lead the ongoing effort to develop the 1st World Agroforestry Congress (WCA), to be held in Orlando FL in June 2004, hosted by the University of Florida. CSTAF is one of the sponsors of the WCA. This is a significant global event in Agroforestry (http://conference.ifas.ufl.edu/wca).
  • Sarah Workman and Eddie Ellis continued field activities for a USDA TSTAR grant awarded to CSTAF to develop a research methodology combining on-farm participatory surveys, GIS, and market analysis to improve productivity, income, and conservation of trees on small farms in the U.S. Virgin Islands. In May 2004 CSTAF was awarded the third year funding of $34,110 for this project.
  • CSTAF was awarded a USDA Higher Education Challenge grant for $241,928 in collaboration with the National Agroforestry Center, the UF School of Forest Resources and Conservation, the UF Department of Agricultural Education and Communication, the University of Georgia (Carl Jordan), and Auburn University (Dennis Shannon). The grant is being used to develop University of Florida undergraduate distance education courses in agroforestry and natural resources, as well as an agroforestry demonstration sites at the University of Florida and an undergraduate agroforestry field course for the University of Georgia at Carl Jordan’s research farm in Athens, Georgia.
  • Three proposals were written to continue CSTAF work:
    • PK Nair and Bannister to the Association Liaison Office for University Cooperation in Development (ALO) with the support of funds from USAID India to develop agroforestry distance education for extension professionals in collaboration with three Indian universities; $298,953. This proposal was not funded.
    • PK Nair and team to USDA/NRI, Integrating Silvopasture into Florida Agroecosystems for Environmental and Socioeconomic Benefits; $799,825, pending.
    • V Nair and team to the USDA National Integrated Water Quality Program, Minimizing Nutrient Pollution from Beef Cattle Pastures through Silvopastoral Practices; $560,445, pending.

Publications/output

Bannister, M.E., and P.K.R. Nair.  2003. Agroforestry adoption in Haiti:  The importance of household- and farm characteristics.  Agroforestry Systems 57: 149-157.

Bellow J. G. 2004. Fruit-tree Based Agroforestry in the Western Highlands of Guatemala: An Evaluation of Tree-Crop Interactions and Socioeconomic Characteristics. Ph D Dissertation, University of Florida

Montagnini F. and P.K.R. Nair. 2004. Carbon sequestration: An under-exploited environmental benefit of agroforestry systems. Agroforestry Systems 61-62 (in press).

Murray G., and M. Bannister.  2004.  Peasants, agroforesters, and anthropologists:  A 20-year venture in income-generating trees and hedgerows in Haiti. Agroforestry Systems 61-62 (in press).

Nair, P. K. R. 2004. Agroforestry: Trees in support of sustainable agriculture. In: Hillel, H., Rosenzweig, C., Powlson, D., Scow, K., Singer, M., and Sparks, D. (eds), Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment. Elsevier, London, U.K. (In press).

Nair, P.K.R., M. R. Rao, and L.E. Buck (eds.). 2004. New Vistas in Agroforestry: A Compendium for the 1st World Congress of Agroforestry. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands (in press).

Nair, P.K.R., M.E. Bannister, V.D. Nair, J.R.R. Alavalapati, E.A. Ellis, S. Jose, and A.J. Long. 2004. Silvopasture in southeastern United States: More than just a new name for an old practice. Silvopastoralism and Sustainable Management International Congress, Lugo, Spain, April 18-24, 2004. CAB International (in press).

Nair, P. K. R . and V.D. Nair. 2003. Carbon Storage in North American Agroforestry Systems. In: Kimble, J., Heath, L.S., Birdsey, R.A., and Lal, R., (eds). The Potential of U.S. Forest Soils to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect, pp. 333-346. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press LLC.

Nair, P.K. R., and V.D. Nair. 2002. Carbon Sequestration in Agroforestry Systems. Paper 989. p 989-1 to 989-13. Transactions. World Congress of Soil Science. Bangkok, Thailand. August 14-21, 2002. CD Rom publication.]

Nair P.K.R. 2001. A new center for subtropical agroforestry. Seventh Biennial Conference on Agroforestry in North America, August 13-15, Regina, Canada. Program and Abstracts, p. 4.

Nair P.K.R. and Bannister M.E. 2001. Center for Subtropical Agroforestry: A new initiative for southeastern USA. Annual Meeting Abstracts, CD-ROM. Amer. Soc. Agron. Madison, WI.

Nair P.K.R., Bannister M.E., Workman S. 2001. The Center for Subtropical Agroforestry: A significant agroforestry initiative in the southeastern United States. Seventh Biennial Conference on Agroforestry in North America, August 13-15, Regina, Canada. Program and Abstracts, p. 52.

Six CSTAF newsletters were published since 2001 and are available on the CSTAF web site (http://cstaf.ifas.ufl.edu/).