Description: Integrating Landscapes: Agroforestry for Biodiversity Conservation and Food Sovereignty Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Author(s): Florencia Montagnini Format: Paperback Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG ISBN-13: 9783319887654, 978-3319887654 Synopsis Agroforestry systems (AFS) are becoming increasingly relevant worldwide as society has come to recognize their multiple roles and services: biodiversity conservation, carbon sequestration, adaptation and mitigation of climate change, restoration of degraded ecosystems, and tools for rural development. This book summarizes advances in agroforestry research and practice and raises questions as to the effectiveness of AFS to solve the development and environmental challenges the world presents us today. Currently AFS are considered to be a land use that can achieve a compromise among productive and environmental functions. Apparently, AFS can play a significant role in rural development even in the most challenging socioeconomic and ecological conditions, but still there is a lot of work to do to reach these goals. Considerable funding is spent in projects directed to enhancing productivity and sustainability of smallholders forestry and agroforestry practices. These projects and programs face many questions and challenges related to the integration of traditional knowledge to promote the most suitable systems for each situation; access to markets for AFS products, and scaling up of successful AFS. These complex questions need innovative approaches from varying perspectives and knowledge bases. This book gathers fresh and novel contributions from a set of Yale University researchers and associates who intend to provide alternative and sometimes departing insights into these pressing questions. The book focuses on the functions that AFS can provide when well designed and implemented: their role in rural development as they can improve food security and sovereignty and contribute to provision of energy needs to the smallholders; and their environmental functions: contribution to biodiversity conservation, to increased connectivity of fragmented landscapes, and adaptation and mitigation of climate change. The chapters present conceptual aspects and case studies ranging from traditional to more modern approaches, from tropical as well as from temperate regions of the world, with examples of the AFS functions mentioned above.
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Book Title: Integrating Landscapes: Agroforestry for Biodiversity Conserva...
Number of Pages: 501 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Integrating Landscapes: Agroforestry for Biodiversity Conservation and Food Sovereignty
Publisher: Springer International Publishing A&G
Publication Year: 2019
Subject: Geography & Geosciences, Botany, Biology
Item Height: 235 mm
Item Weight: 795 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Florencia Montagnini
Subject Area: Natural Science
Series: Advances in Agroforestry
Item Width: 155 mm
Format: Paperback
