Z. Teklehaimanot

TL;DR: Parkia biglobosa (nere) and Vitellaria paradoxa (karite) are indigenous tree species that are economically and socially important for local people in sub-Saharan Africa as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In the Sahelian zone of West Africa, crops grown under a discontinuous cover of scattered trees dominate many landscapes and constitute the so-called parklands as discussed by the authors, which reflect the ecological knowledge of the farmers of such risk prone environments.

TL;DR: The first large-scale spatially-explicit assessment of church forests in Ethiopia was performed, combining remote-sensing and field data, to assess the number of forests, their size, shape, isolation and woody plant species composition.

TL;DR: In this article, a combination of field trials, observational studies and modeling has been deployed to understand soil-tree-crop interactions, including sharing of growth resources by the system components.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of a range of planting densities of banana, the most common companion crop of rubber on productivity and resource capture were evaluated in the context of intercropping of rubber and banana.