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Land use and land cover dynamics and traditional agroforestry practices in Wonchi District, Ethiopia [PDF]

PeerJ, 2022
Background Investigating the land use and land cover (LULC) dynamics and the status of traditional agroforestry practices provide important data for policymakers.
Misganaw Meragiaw, Zerihun Woldu, Bal Ram Singh   +2 more
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The potential of traditional agroforestry practices as nature-based carbon sinks in Ethiopia

Nature-Based Solutions, 2023
Traditional agroforestry practices have economic, social, and environmental benefits to sustain human and ecological systems. The demand for short-term economic benefit has derived from the traditional agroforestry practices towards monoculture cash crop
Desalegn Getnet, Zenebe Mekonnen, Agena Anjulo   +2 more
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Leveraging Traditional Agroforestry Practices to Support Sustainable and Agrobiodiverse Landscapes in Southern Brazil

Land, 2020
Integrated landscape approaches have been identified as key to addressing competing social, ecological, economic, and political contexts and needs in landscapes as a means to improve and preserve agrobiodiversity.
André Eduardo Biscaia Lacerda, Ana Lúcia Hanisch, Evelyn Roberta Nimmo   +2 more
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Data-driven scenario analysis supports the revival of historic silvoarable systems for carbon smart rural landscapes [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Agroforestry has long been recognised as a nature-based solution for climate mitigation, yet its adoption in Europe has drastically declined due to the socio-economic transformations and land use intensification since the onset of the Great Acceleration (
Filippo Brandolini, Angelo Gurgel, Andrea Zerboni   +2 more
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Variations in carbon stocks across traditional and improved agroforestry in reference to agroforestry and households’ characteristics in Southeastern Ethiopia

Heliyon
Agroforestry systems help to mitigate climate change by storing carbon in biomass, soils and products. The potential of various homegarden agroforestry (HGAF) practices as a carbon sink in reference to HGAF and household characters has not been ...
Boja Tilinti, Mesele Negash, Zebene Asfaw, Teshale Woldeamanuel   +3 more
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An Overview and Future Outlook of Indonesian Agroforestry: a Bibliographic and Literature Review [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2021
Indonesian agroforestry has been developed along the history, since been reported that home garden was practiced from 3,000 BC in Java Island. However, agroforestry practices were recognized to have less contribution to people welfare and environmental ...
Budiadi, Jihad Aqmal N., Lestari Lina D.
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Which Agroforestry Practice Is Beneficial? A Comparative Assessment of the Traditional and the Improved Agroforestry Techniques in the Midhills of Nepal

Advances in Agriculture, 2021
Farmers are predominantly adopting two forms of agroforestry, traditional and improved practices, in the midhills of Nepal, but their efficacy on a comparative basis is poorly assessed, so farmers often confuse whether to continue the traditional ...
Deepa Paudel, Krishna Raj Tiwari, Nani Raut, Bishal K. Sitaula, Suman Bhattarai, Yajna Prasad Timilsina, Shivaraj Thapa   +6 more
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Agroforestry Practices Prevailing in SAARC Countries: A Review

Indonesian Journal of Social and Environmental Issues, 2022
Agroforestry systems have been used from a long time ago. The traditional agroforestry concept and knowledge of integration of the trees in the farm have been passed from one generation to another, especially in the South Asian countries.
Yamuna Paudel, Sujita Shrestha
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Cacao Agroforestry in Mahakam Ulu: Transformation Strategy from Traditional to Good Agricultural Practices and Smart Agroforestry System

Forest and Society
The Dayak community in East Kalimantan is renowned for practicing traditional Agroforestry (AF) across generations. Meanwhile, despite the long-term introduction of cacao (Theobroma cacao) in 1996 as a potential commodity in the AF practice, its ...
Catur Budi Wiati, Eddy Mangopo Angi, Karmilasanti Karmilasanti, Murniati Murniati, Sri Suharti, Indra A.S.L.P. Putri, Aris Pudji Hadi, Muhammad Furkan, Belasius Anyeq, Krista Tala, Veronica Carolina, Awaluddin Aziz, Ria Andiana, Yuliara Limbong, Yosua Naibaho, Mukrimin Mukrimin   +15 more
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What affects farmers in choosing better agroforestry practice as a strategy of climate change adaptation? An experience from the mid-hills of Nepal

Heliyon, 2022
Determinants for choosing climate change adaptation strategies and selecting improved agroforestry practices have rarely been explored, while numerous studies have been conducted on climate change and agroforestry.
Deepa Paudel, Krishna Raj Tiwari, Nani Raut, Roshan Man Bajracharya, Suman Bhattarai, Bishal K. Sitaula, Shivaraj Thapa   +6 more
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