Traditional food and its supporting agricultural and agroforestry
systems still play a large part in people’s daily lives in Federated
Sates of Micronesia (FSM). To date, however, there are few publications
on details of these systems in the country. On Kosrae Island, the easternmost
island of FSM, one type of agroforestry has been practiced for centuries
in coastal freshwater wetlands, with Terminalia carolinensis as a
dominant overstory species and swamp taro (Cyrtosperma chamissonis)
as a main agricultural crop. We conducted a survey to obtain baseline
information on this wetland-based agroforestry system. Fifty-six households
were randomly selected from the four municipalities and interviewed
about their agricultural parcels, crop species and varieties, and management
practices pertinent to T. carolinensis