Father of Agroforestry

• “Joseph Russell Smith"(J. Russell Smith), father of Agroforestry. J. Russell Smith was born in Lincoln, Loudown country, Virginia, in 1874. He was belong a middle class family and his death in 1966.

• J. Russell Smith was a geography professor of Columbia University.

• Agroforestry was formally outlined in the early 20th century by American economic geographer J. Russell Smith in his book Tree crops: A permanent Agriculture (1929).

• The book Tree crops: A permanent Agriculture was published in 1929.

• Tree crops: A permanent Agriculture was scanned and this document prepared by the soil and Health Library in 2009.