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Integrating Landscapes: Agroforestry for Biodiversity Conservation and Food Sovereignty (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
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Integrating Landscapes: Agroforestry for Biodiversity Conservation and Food Sovereignty (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Advances in Agroforestry, 12
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Agroforestry systems (AFS) are becoming increasingly relevant
worldwide as society has come to recognize their multiple roles and
services: biodiversity conservation, carbon sequestration,
adaptation and mitigation of climate change, restoration of
degraded ecosystems, and tools for rural development. This book
summarizes advances in agroforestry research and practice and
raises questions as to the effectiveness of AFS to solve the
development and environmental challenges the world presents us
today. Currently AFS are considered to be a land use that can
achieve a compromise among productive and environmental functions.
Apparently, AFS can play a significant role in rural development
even in the most challenging socioeconomic and ecological
conditions, but still there is a lot of work to do to reach these
goals. Considerable funding is spent in projects directed to
enhancing productivity and sustainability of smallholders forestry
and agroforestry practices. These projects and programs face many
questions and challenges related to the integration of traditional
knowledge to promote the most suitable systems for each situation;
access to markets for AFS products, and scaling up of successful
AFS. These complex questions need innovative approaches from
varying perspectives and knowledge bases. This book gathers fresh
and novel contributions from a set of Yale University researchers
and associates who intend to provide alternative and sometimes
departing insights into these pressing questions. The book focuses
on the functions that AFS can provide when well designed and
implemented: their role in rural development as they can improve
food security and sovereignty and contribute to provision of energy
needs to the smallholders; and their environmental functions:
contribution to biodiversity conservation, to increased
connectivity of fragmented landscapes, and adaptation and
mitigation of climate change. The chapters present conceptual
aspects and case studies ranging from traditional to more modern
approaches, from tropical as well as from temperate regions of the
world, with examples of the AFS functions mentioned above.
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