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Integrating Biodiversity in Agricultural Intensification Toward Sound Practices

Southeastern Nigeria has some of the highest population densities in SubSaharan Africa and one of the most threatened ecosystems on the continent the rainforests of West Africa. As population pressure has mounted, fallow periods have declined... Instead of doggedly pursuing old strategies, farmers shifted their agricultural practices in the face of mounting population pressures. Farmers have intensified their traditional bushfallow cultivation system by adopting several strategies... What agrobiodiversity is, what it does, and its importance to the environment and agriculture form the bases of…