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Poverty and Environmental Services: Case Study in Way Besai Watershed, Lampung Province, Indonesia
Ecology and Society, 2007 Local communities in developing countries are often forbidden to earn their livelihood from state-owned forests, but nonetheless local people commonly manage these lands and depend on them to survive.
S. Suyanto +2 more
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Flood risk reduction and flow buffering as ecosystem services – Part 2: Land use and rainfall intensity effects in Southeast Asia [PDF]
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2017 Watersheds buffer the temporal pattern of river flow relative to the temporal pattern of rainfall. This ecosystem service is inherent to geology and climate, but buffering also responds to human use and misuse of the landscape.
M. van Noordwijk, L. Tanika, B. Lusiana
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Environmental Research Letters, 2013 Globally, agriculture is directly responsible for 14% of annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and induces an additional 17% through land use change, mostly in developing countries (Vermeulen et al 2012).
T S Rosenstock +3 more
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A global method to identify trees outside of closed-canopy forests with medium-resolution satellite imagery [PDF]
, 2020 Scattered trees outside of dense, closed-canopy forests are very important for carbon sequestration, supporting livelihoods, maintaining ecosystem integrity, and climate change adaptation and mitigation. In contrast to trees inside of closed-canopy forests, not much is known about the spatial extent and distribution of scattered trees at a global scale.
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Can rewards for environmental services benefit the poor? Lessons from Asia
International Journal of the Commons, 2009 Pro-poor rewards for environmental services (RES) link global priorities on poverty reduction and environmental sustainability. Emerging approaches to payment for environmental services vary in mechanism and form of payment.
Beria Leimona +2 more
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THE ROLE OF AGROFORESTRY FOR FARM HOUSEHOLD’S WELFARE: EVIDENCE FROM INDONESIA
Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences, 2023 The role of agroforestry on socio-economic and environmental conditions has been widely documented in the literature. However, its role in farmers' households remains low, especially in Indonesia.
Wijayanto H.W., Lo K.-A.
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, 2018 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. Existing research indicates that appropriate application of agroforestry principles and practices is a key means by which the European Union might achieve more ...
A. Pantera +15 more
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A global view of agroforestry [PDF]
Frontiers of Biogeography, 2013 book reviews ISSN 1948-6596 A global view of agroforestry Agroforestry – The Future of Global Land Use. P.K. Ramachandran Nair & Dennis Garrity (editors), 2012, Springer, 531 pp. £126 (hardback) ISBN 978-94-007-4675-6; http://www.springer.com Both P.K.R. Nair and D.
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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 +4 more
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Wakelyns Agroforestry: 25 years of agroforestry
, 2020 An oasis of trees, alive with bird song and insects, surrounded by a sea of large-scale conventional arable production, Wakelyns Agroforestry integrates trees for timber, energy and fruit production into an organic crop rotation. Wakelyns was established by the late plant pathologist, Prof.
Smith, Jo, Westaway, Sally
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