Homegarden Agroforestry in Ethiopia- A Review

Home garden agroforestry practice can be defined as a landuse system, which involving deliberate management of multipurpose trees and shrubs in intimate association withannual and perennial agricultural crops and invariably livestock within the compounds of individual houses, the whole tree-crop-animal unit being intensively managed by family labor (Kumar and Nair, 2004). A home garden is an integrated system that comprises different things in its small area that produces a variety of foods and agricultural products including staple crops, vegetables, fruits, medicinal plants and so on (Agbogidi and Adolor, 2013). Homegardens have been identified as the oldest land use activity (Pushpaku et al., 2012). Homegardens are vivid examples of production systems with rich diversity that serves both development and conservation functions (Hailu and Asfaw, 2011).