Integrating Landscapes: Agroforestry for Biodiversity Conservation and Food Sovereignty

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-06-04
Mått155 x 235 x 29 mm
Vikt785 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieAdvances in Agroforestry
Antal sidor501
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783319887654

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Preface; Florencia Montagnini.- Section 1. Agroforestry challenges and alternatives.- 1. Introduction: Challenges for agroforestry in the new millennium; Florencia Montagnini.- 2. The contribution of agroforestry to Sustainable Development Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture; Florencia Montagnini, Ruth Metzel.- 3. Tropical dry forests in multi-functional landscapes: Agroforestry systems for conservation and livelihoods; Irene Montes Londoño.- 4. Agroforestry for the Northeastern United States: Research, practice, and possibilities; Eli Roberts.- 5. Resilience management at landscape level: an approach to tackle social-ecological vulnerability of agroforestry systems; Dardo R. López et al.- Section 2. From subsistence to market oriented systems.- 6. Energy analysis of coffee production systems: Implications for environmental and economic sustainability; Carl F. Jordan.-7. Indigenous successional agroforestry: Integrating the old and new to address food insecurity and deforestation; Asha Bertsch.- 8. Mimicking nature: A review of successional agroforestry systems as an analogue to natural regeneration of secondary forest stands; Katherine Young.- 9. Small-scale Açaí in the global market: Adding value to ensure sustained income for forest farmers in the Amazon Estuary; Leonora Pepper, Lívia De Freitas Navegantes Alves.- 10. Ecological indigenous (EIK) and scientific (ESK) knowledge integration as a tool for sustainable development in indigenous communities. Experience in Misiones, Argentina; Patricia Rocha et al.- 11. Organic yerba mate, Ilex paraguariensis, in association with native species: a sustainable production alternative; Beatriz Eibl et al.- 12. Adapting indigenous agroforestry systems for integrative landscape management and sustainable supply chain development in Napo, Ecuador; ChristopherJarrett et al.- 13. Fuel Alternatives for Developing Countries; Kjell E. Berg.- 14. Specialty crops in temperate agroforestry systems: sustainable management, marketing and promotion for the Midwest region of the U.S.A.; Gregory Ormsby Mori et al.- Section 3. Environmental services in multifunctional landscapes.- 15. Trees on farms for livelihoods, carbon storage and conservation of biodiversity: evidence from Nicaragua on this “invisible” resource; Eduardo Somarriba et al.- 16. Intensive silvopastoral systems: economics and contribution to climate change mitigation and public policies; Julián D. Chará et al.- 17. Enhancing biodiversity in neotropical silvopastoral systems: use of indigenous trees and palms; Zoraida Calle D. et al.- 18. Perennial staple crops and agroforestry for climate change mitigation; Eric Toensmeier.- 19. Carbon sequestration in temperate silvopastoral systems, Argentina; Pablo L. Peri et al.- 20. Conclusions:Lessons learned and pending challenges; Florencia Montagnini.- Index.