Supporting U.S. Agricultural Landscapes Under Changing Conditions with Agroforestry: An Annotated Bibliography

Gary Bentrup, Ina Cernusca and Michael Gold

No 335354, USDA Miscellaneous from United States Department of Agriculture

Abstract: Agroforestry can reduce risks and promote sustainable agricultural production under shifting climate and weather extremes by (1) reducing threats and enhancing agricultural landscape resiliency, (2) facilitating species movement to more favorable conditions, (3) sequestering carbon, and (4) reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Although agroforestry practices can provide these positive adaptation and mitigation services, they in turn can be vulnerable to the same forces. The design and management of agroforestry systems must therefore take into account how these systems can incorporate resiliency into agriculture in ways that the systems are more resilient to these changing conditions. As a key step in this process, the authors conducted a search of the scientific literature on agroforestry’s role in adaptation and mitigation under climatic variability and change, as well as on the effects of these stressors on agroforestry. The temporal scope of the literature search focused on the period of 1992 to 2017, and the geographical scope concentrated on temperate agricultural regions.

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; Environmental Economics and Policy; Land Economics/Use; Livestock Production/Industries; Research Methods/Statistical Methods; Resource/Energy Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 68
Date: 2018-05
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.335354

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