1. Preface

   • R. J. Buresh
   • P. J. M. Cooper

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 2

2. Improved fallows come of age in the tropics

   • P. A. Sanchez

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 12

3. Traditional fallows in Latin America

   • D. C. L. Kass
   • E. Somarriba

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 36

4. Improving shifting cultivation in Southeast Asia by building on indigenous fallow management strategies

   • M. Cairns
   • D. P. Garrity

   OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 48

5. Sesbania sesban improved fallows in eastern Zambia: Their inception, development and farmer enthusiasm

   • F. R. Kwesiga
   • S. Franzel
   • C. P. Simwanza

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 66

6. Adoption of mucuna in the farming systems of northern Honduras

   • D. Buckles
   • B. Triomphe

   OriginalPaper Pages: 67 - 91

7. Adoption of improved fallows in West Africa: lessons from mucuna and stylo case studies

   • G. Tarawali
   • V. M. Manyong
   • M. Galiba

   OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 122

8. Green manures for maize—bean systems in eastern Uganda: Agronomic performance and farmers' perceptions

   • M. Fischler
   • C. S. Wortmann

   OriginalPaper Pages: 123 - 138

9. Biomass production of tree fallows and their residual effect on maize in Zimbabwe

   • P. L. Mafongoya
   • B. H. Dzowela

   OriginalPaper Pages: 139 - 151

10. Maize and sesbania production in relay cropping at three landscape positions in Malawi

    • A. D. K. Phiri
    • G. Y. Kanyama-Phiri
    • S. Snapp

    OriginalPaper Pages: 153 - 162

11. Ecosystem fertility and fallow function in the humid and subhumid tropics

    • L. T. Szott
    • C. A. Palm
    • R. J. Buresh

    OriginalPaper Pages: 163 - 196

12. Weed management through short-term improved fallows in tropical agroecosystems

    • R. S. Gallagher
    • E. C. M. Fernandes
    • E. L. McCallie

    OriginalPaper Pages: 197 - 221

13. Productivity of intensified crop—fallow rotations in the Trenbath model

    • M. van Noordwijk

    OriginalPaper Pages: 223 - 237

14. Scale effects in crop—fallow rotations

    • M. van Noordwijk

    OriginalPaper Pages: 239 - 251

15. Soil nitrate dynamics in relation to nitrogen source and landscape position in Malawi

    • R. H. Phiri
    • S. Snapp
    • G. Y. Kanyama-Phiri

    OriginalPaper Pages: 253 - 262

16. Soil microarthropod populations under natural and planted fallows in southwestern Nigeria

    • C. O. Adejuyigbe
    • G. Tian
    • G. O. Adeoye

    OriginalPaper Pages: 263 - 272

17. The root-knot nematode problem in sesbania fallows and scope for managing it in western Kenya

    • J. Desaeger
    • M. R. Rao

    OriginalPaper Pages: 273 - 288

18. Spectral irradiance and stomatal conductance of enriched fallows with fast-growing trees in eastern Amazonia, Brazil

    • T. D. De A. Sá
    • V. C. De Oliveira
    • S. Brienza Junior

    OriginalPaper Pages: 289 - 303

19. Socioeconomic factors affecting the adoption potential of improved tree fallows in Africa

    • S. Franzel

    OriginalPaper Pages: 305 - 321

20. Policies and incentives for the adoption of improved fallows

    • F. Place
    • P. Dewees

    OriginalPaper Pages: 323 - 343

21. The science and practice of short-term improved fallows: symposium synthesis and recommendations

    • R. J. Buresh
    • P. J. M. Cooper

    OriginalPaper Pages: 345 - 356