Today, agroforestry ranks high among the significant
land-management initiatives that have undertaken the world over the
past few decades. Indeed, it is now recognized as an important
approach to ensuring food security and rebuilding resilient rural
environments. Recent studies have shown that more than one billion
hectares of agricultural land have more than 10% tree cover. Of
this, 160 million hectares have more than 50% tree cover.
Agricultural ecosystems can be further improved through
agroforestry to ensure environmental restoration, greater farm
productivity, and realization of ecological services, including
climate change mitigation and adaptation for improved rural
livelihood. Now, agroforestry is considered synonymous to climate
smart agriculture and a remedy for many modern environmental
challenges, and acts as a mitigating process for climate change.
Consequently, the knowledge base of agroforestry is being expanded
at a rapid rate as illustrated by the increasing number and quality
of scientific publications of various forms on different aspects of
agroforestry. Making full and efficient use of this upsurge in
scientific agroforestry is both a challenge and an opportunity to
the scientific community, particularly in the scenario of climate
change. In order to help prepare themselves better for facing the
challenges and seizing the opportunity, agroforestry scientists
need access to synthesized information on multi-dimensional aspects
of scientific agroforestry. It is believed that widespread
scaling-up of agroforestry innovations during the next decade will
greatly facilitate the success of global commitments and
conventions such as the UN Millennium Development Goals, Convention
on Biological Diversity, Framework on Climate Change, and the
Convention to Combat Desertification. This book will be useful for
engaging more stakeholders, including students, foresters, farmers,
local communities, indigenous people, civil society institutions,
the media, private sectors, scientists (working in the fields of
Agroforestry, Forestry, Life Sciences, Animal Husbandry &
Dairy, Social Science, Food Science and Environmental Sciences),
policymakers, leaders, and the public.
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