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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The Conditions for Functional Mechanisms of Compensation and Reward for Environmental Services
Ecology and Society, 2010 Mechanisms of compensation and reward for environmental services (CRES) are becoming increasingly contemplated as means for managing human-environment interactions.
Brent M. Swallow +3 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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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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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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Frontiers in Climate, 2022 Coffee is a major global commodity whose production is sustained by and provides livelihoods for millions of smallholder families in the tropics. However, it is highly sensitive to climate change and the climate risk family farmer's face from direct ...
Laura V. Morales +4 more
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Assessing soil and land health across two landscapes in eastern Rwanda to inform restoration activities [PDF]
SOIL, 2021 Land degradation negatively impacts water, food, and nutrition security and is leading to increased competition for resources. While landscape restoration has the potential to restore ecosystem function, understanding the drivers of degradation is ...
L. A. Winowiecki +7 more
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MAPPING TREES ON FARMLANDS USING OBIA METHOD AND HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE DATA: A CASE STUDY OF KORAPUT DISTRICT, ODISHA [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2019 Agroforestry is an integrated self-sustainable land use management system that is not only capable of producing food from marginal agricultural land but also capable of maintaining and improving the quality of environment. Accurate assessment of trees on
R. H. Rizvi +3 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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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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