ABSTRACT
We recognize that, in addition to favorable production and environmental capacities, agroforestry approaches also sometimes open up critical options for otherwise disenfranchised groups. Rocheleau (1987) demonstrates quite clearly how women mobilize agroforestry strategies to make the best use of the minimal landholdings allotted to them (cf. Leach 1994). Other authors have argued eloquently for the rights of indigenous peoples to perpetuate their livelihoods in agroforestry systems (Clay 1988). And Dove (1990) suggests that the diversity and complexity of so-called ‘home garden’ agroforestry systems, which incorporate a wide range of cultivars with high use-value but low exchange-value, provide peasant groups with the means effectively to resist the extractive propensities of the state.
