Agroforestry Books for Tropical Climates

Hi Everyone!

I'm a forest garden specialist from Latvia/the UK but am currently working on permaculture projects in Southern India. I'm thinking about moving here more full time, but know very little about this climate and the plants that grow here!

So far, I've been totally gob-smacked by the lack of literature on tropical agroforestry. With 40% of the world's people living in the tropics, why on earth are there not dozens of books devoted to tropical food forests and agroforestry systems? The information would be transformational to huge swathes of Asia, Africa, South America, and even Australia.

I sincerely hope that I'm missing something and that there are some gems out there! Please, please, please could someone tell me of some tried-and-tested books on the subject? Or at second-best just generic 'Permaculture / Permaculture Plants in Tropical Climates' type books... this would be a God-send to help me get to grips with this incredibly rich, diverse and fruitful climatic zone :)

Thank you,

Charlie/Karlis

Our forum has had Book review Grid that you might find interesting:

https://permies.com/w/book-reviews

You or others might find these of interest:

https://permies.com/t/56272/Carbon-Farming-Solution-Chapter-Agroforestry
https://permies.com/t/10022/Agroforestry-Literature

There is a lot of research on agroforesty in the tropics, you however have to use other terms for research:

I think that Tropical Homegardens is the term you are looking for.

Use that in google scholar or any other scientific repository, and you will find way too much information :-)