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11^th North American Agroforestry Conference
Agroforestry Comes of Age: Putting Science into Practice
May 31 - June 3rd, 2009

Early bird discounted registration fee has been extended to March 1.

Specialty mushrooms can be grown o­n a wide range of acreage allotments and are a sustainable and profitable way to recycle low-value forestry by-products. Researchers at the University of Missouri Center for Agroforestry are evaluating shiitakes, truffles, morels and other gourmet mushrooms for landowner production and profit. (Photo courtesy of UMCA.)

The 11^th North American Agroforestry Conference of the Association for Temperate Agroforestry (AFTA) will be held May 31 – June 3, 2009 at the Stoney Creek Inn and Conference Center located in Columbia, Missouri. The conference will be hosted by the University of Missouri Center for Agroforestry (UMCA) and the Association for Temperate Agroforestry (AFTA). Please visit the UMCA website www.centerforagroforestry.org for more information about the conference and field tours, and instructions to authors who have oral and poster presentation abstracts accepted for the conference. The conference registration form is located o­n the UMCA website.

AFTA Seeks Proposals to Host 2011 Agroforestry Conference

AFTA is inviting proposals from organizations interested in hosting the 12th North American Agroforestry Conference to be held in 2011. Proposals are due by March 31, 2009. Please review the proposal criteria here in the What's New section. Selection of the host for the 2011 conference will be made by April 15, 2009.

2^nd World Congress of Agroforestry
Agroforestry - The Future of Global Land Use

The 2^nd World Congress of Agroforestry will be held during August 23 - 28, 2009 in Nairobi, Kenya. It will be organized by ICRAF (World Agroforestry Centre) at the conference facilities of UNEP (UN Environment Programme). Please see the Congress website: http://worldagroforestry.org/wca2009/ for details.

Read the Latest Temperate Agroforester

Reforestation Along the Red River of the North in North Dakota. (Photo courtesy of USDA-NRCS Bismarck, ND)

The December issue of the Temperate Agroforester is now available for o­nline viewing. In this issue, we will hear about some work o­n riparian forestry in North Dakota. I asked Craig to submit this article after a conversation where we were talking about plantings that we had done that DIDN’T work. Sometimes a person learns more about what not to do than what to do. In this article, Craig talks about both. He relates some of the difficulties and successes of working with trees in the unpredictable riparian forests of North Dakota. Enjoy. The editor.

Agroforestry Systems 2009 Editor-in-Chief, P.K. Ramachandran Nair School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville Kluwer Academic Publishers ISSN: 0167-4366 Paper Version

The Agroforester’s Bookshop is announcing the continued availability of the paper version of the 2009 journal of Agroforestry Systems. To avoid missing one issue, please continue your subscription today by logging in with your member ID (above right) and then clicking here.  Any subscription received within a calendar year entitles o­ne to all issues of that calendar year.  Anyone wanting issues from the succeeding year must again subscribe at the beginning of that year.

Remember that AFTA members may order, at discount, any book from the publisher catalogs linked on the Agroforester's Bookshop website.  Contact sales [at] aftaweb.org with the publisher, title and ISBN.