Chapter 10 Curriculum
Module Ten Course Notes
Introduction to the Humid Tropics
The Humid Tropics
Climatic Types
The Structure of a Wet Tropical Forest
Tropical Soils
Broadscale Tree Crop in Loose Granite Sands
Gardening in Coarse Granitic Sands
Tropical Clays
Log Barriers on Slope
Weed Barrier
Mulch in Gardens
Earth-Shaping in the Tropics
Terrace Systems
Mounds, Ridges, Pits
Sets of Narrow Terraces on Steep Slopes
Urban Sub Tropical Design Plan
Broad Contour Banks Evolving into Terraces
Water Continuously Fed to Terraces
Vetiver or Lemon Grass Strips
Variations on Terrace Culture
Terrace Culture
House Design
Cross-Ventilation for Houses
Cool Air from Shadehouse and Buried Pipe
Cool Storage Strategies
Grain Storage System
Earth-Sheltered Hurricane Houses
Equatorial House
The Tropical Home Garden
Hurricane Garden
Wet Food Patch
Dirty Water Patch
Gangamma’s Garden
Avenue Cropping
Intergrated Land Management
Ohana System
Elements of a Village in the Humid Tropics
Evolving a Polyculture
Nigerian Polyculture for Humid Tropics
Earthworks for Polyculture on a 2 HA Sub-Tropical Site
A 5 Acre Property
Themes on a Coconut or Palm-Dominated Polyculture
Structural Variation in Palm Polyculture
Appropriate Village Zonation
Land Patterning for Maximum Water Absorption
Comparison of Linear and Clump Layouts
Palms Planted in Clumps
Layout of Plantation for Mulch
Ridges, Mounds, Furrows, Boxes
Palm Intercrop
Yields Over Time
Planting Benches in Pits on Coral Islands
Mulch Boxes Made of Palm Trunks
Pioneering
Planting in Grasslands
Nucleus Pioneer Copse in Grassland
Components of the Tropical Forest Tree Polyculture
Zones of Nitrogen Intensity Around a Tree Legume
Savannah Forestry
Animal Tractor Systems
Grassland and Range Management
Humid Tropical Coast Stabilisation and Shelterbelt
Rows of Tropical Hedgerow and Windbreak
Low Island and Coral Cay Strategies
Water Lens on an Atoll
Pit Planting on Atoll
Sea Coast Planting
Knowledge Check
Practical Activity