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applies management practices that are compatible with the cultural
practices of the local population (King and Chandler, 1978).

(3) Agroforestry as a land use system that integrates trees, crops and
animals in a way that is scientifically sound, ecologically desirable,
practically feasible and socially acceptable to the farmer adopter, (Nair,
1979).

(4) Agroforestry is a collective name for land use systems and
technologies, where woody perennials like trees, shrubs, including palm
and bamboos and are deliberately used in the same piece of land
management units as agriculture crops and/or animals in some form of
spatial arrangement or temporal sequence. Ecological and economical
interactions is observed between the different components, (Lundgren
and Raintree, 1982).

(5) Agroforestry denotes a sustainable land and crop management system
that seeks to increase yields on a continuing basis, by combining the
production of forestry crops with field crops and/or animals
simultaneously or sequentially on the same unit of land, and applying
management practices that are compatible with the cultural practices of
the local population, (ICRAF 1982).

(6) Publications from the U.S Department of Agriculture, defines agroforestry
is the intentional integration of trees and shrubs into crop and animal
farming systems to create environmental, economic, and social benefits
(US-DA, 2019).

The US-DA definition of Agroforestry embraces an agro-ecological approach,
putting emphasis on multi-functionality and the management of complex
systems and polycultures rather than focusing exclusively on monoculture.

US-DA, used the word ‘tree’ inclusively, to refer to trees and shrubs, all
woody perennials, palms and bamboo. It also uses the word ‘agriculture',
inclusively, to refer to a human activity, carried out primarily to produce
food, fiber and fuel by the deliberate and controlled use of plants and
animals.