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A review of agroforestry, precision agriculture, and precision livestock farming—The case for a data-driven agroforestry strategy

Frontiers in Sensors, 2022
Agroforestry can be defined as an agroecosystem whereby soil is used holistically and synergistically by various stakeholders including farmers, livestock, and plants.
Elisa S. Ramil Brick, John Holland, Dimitris E. Anagnostou, Keith Brown, Marc P. Y. Desmulliez   +4 more
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Agroforestry Systems for Soil Health Improvement and Maintenance

Sustainability, 2022
Agroforestry integrates woody perennials with arable crops, livestock, or fodder in the same piece of land, promoting the more efficient utilization of resources as compared to monocropping via the structural and functional diversification of components.
Shah Fahad, S. Chavan, A. R. Chichaghare, A. R. Uthappa, Manish Kumar, V. Kakade, Aliza Pradhan, D. Jinger, G. Rawale, Dinesh Kumar Yadav, Prof Vikas Kumar, T. H. Farooq, B. Ali, A. Sawant, S. Saud, Shouyue Chen, P. Poczai   +16 more
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Degraded land rehabilitation through agroforestry in India: Achievements, current understanding, and future prospectives

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Land degradation is one of the most important factors responsible for the alarming situation of food security, human health, and socioeconomic development in the country.
D. Jinger, R. Kaushal, Raj Kumar, V. Paramesh, Archana K Verma, M. Shukla, S. Chavan, V. Kakade, Sneha Dobhal, A. R. Uthappa, Trisha Roy, V. Singhal, Madhu Madegowda, D. Kumar, P. Khatri, D. Dinesh, Gaurav Singh, Ashutosh Kumar Singh, A. Nath, Neeshu Joshi, E. Joshi, Sanju Kumawat   +21 more
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Farmer’s Perceptions of Agroforestry Practices, Contributions to Rural Household Farm Income, and Their Determinants in Sodo Zuria District, Southern Ethiopia

International Journal of Forestry Research, 2023
Agroforestry has been widely used in developing countries as a solution to mitigate the effects of climate variability. However, its significance to the well-being of farmers in rural communities has not been thoroughly investigated.
Mathewos Tega, Elias Bojago
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Multifunctionality of temperate alley-cropping agroforestry outperforms open cropland and grassland

Communications Earth & Environment, 2023
Intensively managed open croplands are highly productive but often have deleterious environmental impacts. Temperate agroforestry potentially improves ecosystem functions, although comprehensive analysis is lacking.
E. Veldkamp, Marcus Schmidt, Christian Markwitz, Lukas Beule, R. Beuschel, A. Biertümpfel, Xenia Bischel, X. Duan, Rowena Gerjets, Leonie Göbel, R. Graß, Victor A Guerra, Florian Heinlein, M. Komainda, M. Langhof, Jie Luo, M. Potthoff, Justus G. V. van Ramshorst, Carolin Rudolf, Diana-Maria Seserman, Guodong Shao, L. Siebicke, N. Svoboda, Anita Swieter, A. Carminati, D. Freese, T. Graf, J. Greef, J. Isselstein, M. Jansen, P. Karlovsky, A. Knohl, N. Lamersdorf, E. Priesack, C. Wachendorf, M. Wachendorf, M. Corre   +36 more
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Carbon Sequestration Potential of Commercial Agroforestry Systems in Indo-Gangetic Plains of India: Poplar and Eucalyptus-Based Agroforestry Systems

Forests, 2023
Climate change, land degradation, and desertification lead to the loss of carbon present in the soil and plants. The carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in the atmosphere has reached 412 ppm. This is a rise of 47% since the start of the industrial period,
S. Chavan, R. Dhillon, C. Sirohi, A. R. Uthappa, D. Jinger, H. Jatav, A. R. Chichaghare, V. Kakade, V. Paramesh, S. Kumari, D. Yadav, T. Minkina, V. Rajput   +12 more
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Agroforestry potential for adaptation to climate change: A soil‐based perspective

Soil use and management, 2023
Agricultural systems face several challenges that threaten their capacity to feed the world while maintaining a healthy and functional environment. Climate change, together with soil degradation, biodiversity loss, resource scarcity and invasive species,
V. Rolo, David Rivest, Émilie Maillard, G. Moreno   +3 more
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Agroforestry Adoption Decision in Green Growth Initiative Programs: Key Lessons from the Billion Trees Afforestation Project (BTAP)

Environmental Management, 2023
Adoption of agroforestry in the early spring under the green growth initiative programs, such as the Billion Trees Afforestation Project, has positively impacted crop productivity and plantation success in Pakistan.
Ayat Ullah, A. Mishra, M. Bavorova
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Socioeconomic Determinants and Perceptions of Smallholder Farmers towards Agroforestry Adoption in Northern Irrigated Plain, Pakistan

Land, 2023
Amid the epoch of global overpopulation, the agroforestry system can intervene as a novel practice that can safeguard agricultural sustainability, provide a means of livelihood, yield ecological benefits, and contribute to household food security ...
Jay Mar, D. Quevedo, Norie Tamura, Y. Uchiyama, R. Kohsaka, Shahzad Ahmad, Haiping Xu, E. Ekanayake   +7 more
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Meta-analysis unveils differential effects of agroforestry on soil properties in different zonobiomes

Plant and Soil, 2023
Aims Current comprehensive meta-analysis study aims to explore how agroforestry practices influence soil quality across different climate zones.
Mbezele Junior Yannick Ngaba, Abubakari Said Mgelwa, G. A. Gurmesa, Yves Uwiragiye, F. Zhu, Qingyan Qiu, Yunting Fang, Bin Hu, Heinz Rennenberg   +8 more
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