Combat climate change and hunger with trees – agroforestry is a key approach to help achieve the global goals Link to the original article by Agroforestry Network here. Photo shows Benta Muga in Kenya practicing agroforestry on her farm, planting trees together with crops. Photo credit: Amunga Esuchi. Vi-skogen. Can agroforestry – a land management system combining crops, trees and…
The film maker Maja Lindström, from Paradigm Shift Film, has followed agroforestry pioneers in Sweden and the UK and documented how food producing systems can help till restore biodiversity, create food security, new jobs, and improve quality of life. In two parts Maja shows an utopian society where agroforestry is used to mitigate the current conflicts between food production and…
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Authors: James Reed, Josh van Vianen, Samson Foli, Jessica Clendenning, Kevin Yang, Margaret MacDonald, Gillian Petrokofsky, Christine Padoch, Terry Sunderland 2017 Abstract Despite expanding interest in ecosystem service research over the past three decades, in-depth understanding of the contribution of forests and trees to food production and livelihoods remains limited. This review synthesizes the current evidence base examining the contribution…
Authors: Joseph Bettles, David S. Battisti, Susan C. Cook-Patton, Timm Kroeger, June T. Spector, Nicholas H. Wolff, Yuta J.Masuda 2021 Abstract Agroforestry, or the intentional integration of trees on crop or pastureland, is a sustainable land use system that provides ecosystem services including climate change mitigation and private benefits for smallholders. While existing reviews of agroforestry adoption focus on government…
Editors: B. Mohan Kumar, P. K. Ramachandran Nair 2006Publisher: Springer Netherlands About the book: ‘Homegardens’ are integrated tree – crop – animal production systems, often in small parcels of land surrounding homesteads, and primarily found in tropical environments. These agroforestry systems, developed and nurtured by farmers through generations of innovation and experiment, are often cited as the epitome of sustainability,…
Author: Peter Huxley 1999Publisher: Wiley About the book: Agroforestry is the cultivation, by farmers, of trees or other woody plants with crops or pasture. Its scientific study is attracting great interest and increasing funding because of its potential to produce sustainable agricultural systems and agroforestry is now included in most university and college courses covering land use subjects. Tropical Agroforestry…
Editors: Anthony Young 1997Publisher: CABI About the book: Agroforestry refers to land use systems in which trees or shrubs are grown in association with agricultural crops, or pastures and livestock. From its inception, it has contained a strong element of soil management. Well-designed and managed agroforestry systems have the potential to control run-off and erosion, maintain soil organic matter and…
Editors: Gordon A. M., Newman S. M., Coleman B. R. W. 2018Publisher: CABI About the book: This second edition of the book contains 12 chapters, which aims to: (1) to update existing chapters with the tremendous advances in temperate agroforestry knowledge that have come to light in the last 20 years; and (2) if possible, to add new global regional…
Authors: Alain Atangana, Damase Khasa, Scott Chang, Ann Degrande 2013Publisher: Springer About the book: Agroforestry systems contribute to the maintenance of biodiversity in tropical landscapes. In the East Usambara Mountains of Tanzania, conservational functional group richness was significantly higher in an agrosilvopastoral system than that of an agrisilvicultural or aquasilvicultural system or monoculture plantation. A compilation of nine studies undertaken…
Authors: P. K. Ramachandran Nair, B. Mohan Kumar, Vimala D. Nair 2021Publisher: Springer International Publishing About the book: Agroforestry – the practice of growing trees and crops in interacting combinations – is recognized the world over as an integrated approach to sustainable land-use. Agroforestry systems, being multifunctional, facilitate not only the production of food and wood products but also provide…