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Water is at the heart of the crisis facing Africa today, and agroforestry provides some of the tools for restoring tropical aquifers that have been destroyed by years of deforestation and poor land management. When restoration does become a priority, human technologies for reforestation cannot truly mimic nature’s complex restoration process. We need to control our species to do less harm rather than trying to control nature.
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Leakey, R. (2012). Environmental Resilience and Agroforestry. In: Nair, P., Garrity, D. (eds) Agroforestry - The Future of Global Land Use. Advances in Agroforestry, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4676-3_3
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