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Agroforestry: Options for Landowners
This document is FOR 104, one of a series of the School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Center for Subtropical Agroforestry (CSTAF), Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. This publication was produced by the University of Florida with assistance from a grant from USDA/CSREES/IFAFS. First published August 2002.
S. W. Workman+3 more
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Agroforestry and the environment [PDF]
Agroforestry is a traditional land use system that may contribute to the solution of environmental problems in agriculture. Agroforestry is the practice of deliberately integrating woody vegetation (trees or shrubs) with crops and/or animal systems to benefit from the resulting ecological and economic interactions.
Felix Herzog+3 more
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Agroforestry and Biodiversity [PDF]
Declining biodiversity (BD) is aecting food security, agricultural sustainability,and environmental quality. Agroforestry (AF) is recognized as a possible partial solution forBD conservation and improvement. This manuscript uses published peer-reviewed manuscripts,reviews, meta-analysis, and federal and state agency documents to evaluate relationships ...
Ranjith P. Udawatta+2 more
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Production landscapes depend on, but also affect, ecosystem services. In the Rejoso watershed (East Java, Indonesia), uncontrolled groundwater use for paddies reduces flow of lowland pressure-driven artesian springs that supply drinking water to urban ...
Ni’matul Khasanah+9 more
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Agroforestry Systems for Soil Health Improvement and Maintenance
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+16 more
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Multifunctionality of temperate alley-cropping agroforestry outperforms open cropland and grassland
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+36 more
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Agroforestry has the double benefit of making grain and wood from bushes alongside crop advent from a solitary actual property parcel. It is beneficial to broaden teak, crease, sesame, and eucalyptus for wood, lumber for apparatuses, crease, bamboo and teak, bamboo for paper and mash, and karanj for biofuel.
Shri, Kaushal, Gyan, Rajiv, Umrao,
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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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Sustainable agricultural intensification (SAI) has the potential to increase food security without detrimental effects on ecosystem services. However, adoption of SAI practices across sub-Saharan Africa has not reached transformational numbers to date ...
Leigh Ann Winowiecki+19 more
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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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