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Identifying knowledge barriers to agroforestry adoption and co‐designing solutions to them

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Compared to monocultures, agroforestry can promote biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and climate resilience, whilst maintaining or enhancing production and profits. Despite this, uptake in temperate regions remains low. Knowledge gaps amongst land managers are a primary barrier to uptake, but little is known about which aspects of ...
Amelia S. C. Hood, Verena Scherfranz, Rosy E. Scholes, Erika Degani, Tom Staton, Alexa Varah, Lena Schaller, Alice L. Mauchline   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating ecosystem multifunctionality in tree-based intercropping: a case study from southern Québec, Canada

Frontiers in Agronomy
Agroforestry is increasingly recognized as an effective tool for enhancing multifunctionality in agroecosystems globally, improving land-use efficiency and delivering multiple ecosystem services (ES).
David Rivest, Marc-Olivier Martin-Guay, Ève-Marie Hébert, Samuel Dulac, Alain Cogliastro, Audrey Maheu   +5 more
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Contribution of European Agroforestry Systems to Climate Change Mitigation: Current and Future Land Use Scenarios

Land
Agroforestry is a land use system that has recently been recognised as a strategic tool for greenhouse gas mitigation and as an integrated approach to sustainable land use due to its environmental benefits.
Salim Edris, V. Anthony Gabourel-Landaverde, Susanne Schnabel, Judit Rubio-Delgado, Rodrigo Olave   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Towards evidence‐based biodiversity assessment tools for agroforestry systems

Ecological Solutions and Evidence, Volume 6, Issue 4, October–December 2025.
Our study integrates evidence from meta‐analyses, a biodiversity tool review and stakeholder insights to assess the status of biodiversity assessment tools for agroforestry application. While current evidence highlights mostly neutral to positive effects of agroforestry on biodiversity, biodiversity tools are not tailored to diverse systems and remain ...
Jari Vandendriessche, Maxime Eeraerts, Pieter De Frenne, Paul J. Burgess, Laura Cumplido‐Marìn, Sonja Kay, Margherita Tranchina, Paul Pardon, Kris Verheyen   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Farmland trees and integrated pest management: A review of current knowledge and developing strategies for sustainable systems

Ecological Solutions and Evidence, Volume 6, Issue 3, July–September 2025.
Conceptual figure representing the three topics assessed in this review. Components include the crops, invertebrates, and trees and their arrangements. Interactions refer to the dynamic relationships between these components and management interventions. Opportunities include the measuring, promotion, better use of resources, research and demonstration
Alison S. Scott‐Brown, Karen Rial‐Lovera, Michail L. Giannitsopoulos, Jane R. Rickson, Tom Staton, Keith F. A. Walters, Paul J. Burgess   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Temperate alley‐cropping agroforestry improves pest control potential by promoting spider abundance and functional diversity

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 61, Issue 12, Page 3079-3091, December 2024.
Overall, our findings highlight that the inclusion of tree rows benefited spiders across the entirety of the 48 m crop rows, independent of crop type. Since the peak in spider abundance and taxonomic diversity in crop rows coincided with crop pest arrival, alley‐cropping agroforestry is expected to benefit agricultural production through increased pest
Dragan Matevski, Viktoria Sagolla, Lukas Beule, Andreas Schuldt   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Agroforestry enhances biological activity, diversity and soil‐based ecosystem functions in mountain agroecosystems of Latin America: A meta‐analysis

Global Change Biology, Volume 30, Issue 1, January 2024.
This meta‐analysis of 78 studies reveals that agroforestry systems (silvopastoral and silvoarable) have an overall positive effect on carbon sequestration, nutrient cycling, soil fertility, and biodiversity conservation. While the impacts of agroforestry on crop production vary depending on the crop type, our findings suggest that agroforestry systems ...
Anna M. Visscher, Paula Meli, Steven J. Fonte, Gianmaria Bonari, Stefan Zerbe, Camilla Wellstein   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Agrochemical properties of soils in systems of windbreaks and plantings of silvoarable agroforestry

Agroecological journal
The windbreaks do not only affect the fertility of the soils of the adjacent territories, but also activate the soil-forming process in the stands themselves, which became the subject of the study. It was carried out on 6 trial plots located in pairs in classical windbreaks and windbreaks transformed into narrow linear stands of silvoarable ...
V. Yukhnovskyi, V. Khryk, V. Maliuha, O. Tupchii, S. Levandovska, O. Sytnyk   +5 more
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Microclimate, soil moisture and forage yield vary spatially within a temperate tree-based intercropping system: From competition to facilitation

Agricultural Water Management
Tree-based intercropping (TBI) can improve water conservation in agroecosystems and yield stability in the face of climate change. Greater understanding is required regarding mechanisms determining spatial and seasonal variation in moisture availability ...
Ève-Marie Hébert, Marc-Olivier Martin-Guay, Audrey Maheu, Marie-Noëlle Thivierge, David Rivest   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mixing-in native thorny shrubs greatly improves the habitat quality of short rotation coppice strips within a modern agroforestry system for breeding birds

Global Ecology and Conservation
Silvoarable agroforestry systems (AFS) with short rotation coppice strips (CS) are novel land-use systems that combine fast-growing trees with croplands to simultaneously produce woody biomass and arable crops.
Jana Linnebank, Felix Zitzmann
doaj   +1 more source