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Keywords: farmer appropriate technologies to address problems of soil degradation are largely agroforestry based, policies for the adoption of sustainability technologies, deforestation and its effects, land tenure, credit and subsidies, markets and price policy, near-term costs and benefits, agricultural intensification,, near versus long term benefits, learning costs