The authors of this study consider the economic and ecological advantages of forest garden farming systems, which are small and low-input but highly productive and sustainable family units of diversified trees, palms, bushes and vines.

Providing a survey of tropical farming systems around the world and an in-depth analysis of Kandy, Sri Lanka, this book offers an economic and ecological description and evaluation of this ancient agroforestry system and its relationship to a wide range of global agro-development and environmental problems.

Nature... structure and attributes of forest gardens
Reconnaissance... of forest gardens around the world
Kandy... agro-economics of Kandyan farms, Sri Lanka
Diversity... biodiversity, new crops, old crops, conservation
Nutrients... cycling in tropical forests, forest gardens
Energy... or Prometheus extended
Shifters... shifting agriculture and alternatives
Origins... of mainstream B - the caravans of place and circumstance
Genesis... of stream A - the caravan of time.