Agroforestry for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services - Science and Practice

Edited by Martin Leckson Kaonga

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Abstract: Agroforestry has great potential for reducing deforestation and forest degradation, providing rural livelihoods and habitats for species outside formally protected land, and alleviating resource-use pressure on conservation areas. However, widespread adoption of agroforestry innovations is still constrained by a myriad of factors including design features of candidate agroforestry innovations, perceived needs, policies, availability and distribution of factors of production, and perception of risks. Understanding the science, and factors that regulate the adoption, of agroforestry and how they impact the implementation of agroforestry is vitally important. Agroforestry for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Science and Practice examines design features and management practices of some agroforestry practices and their impact on biodiversity and the ecosystem services it delivers. It also identifies policy issues for facilitating adoption of desirable agroforestry practices and gradual diminution of undesirable policies.

JEL-codes: Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
ISBN: 978-953-51-0493-3
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A Conceptual Model of Carbon Dynamics for Improved Fallows in the Tropics

Martin Leckson Kaonga and Tim Bayliss-Smith

Consumption of Acorns by Finishing Iberian Pigs and Their Function in the Conservation of the Dehesa Agroecosystem

Vicente Rodriguez-Estevez, Manuel Sanchez, Cristina Arce, Anton R. Garcia, Jose M. Perea and A. Gustavo Gomez-Castro

Drivers of Parasitoid Wasps' Community Composition in Cacao Agroforestry Practice in Bahia State, Brazil

Carlos Sperber, Celso Azevedo, Dalana Muscardi, Neucir Szinwelski and Sabrina Almeida

Effectiveness of Grassroots Organisations in the Dissemination of Agroforestry Innovations

Ann Degrande, Steven Franzel, Yannick Siohdjie Yeptiep, Ebenezer Asaah, Alain Tsobeng and Zac Tchoundjeu

Improved Policies for Facilitating the Adoption of Agroforestry

Frank Place, Oluyede Ajayi, Emmanuel Torquebiau and Guillermo Detlefsen

Mainstreaming Agroforestry Policy in Tanzania Legal Framework

Tuli Msuya and Jafari Ramadhani Kideghesho

Shoot Pruning and Impact on Functional Equilibrium Between Shoots and Roots in Simultaneous Agroforestry Systems

Patrick E.K. Chesney, Patrick E.K. Chesney and Patrick E.K. Chesney

The Effects of Tree-Alfalfa Intercropped Systems on Wood Quality in Temperate Regions

Davood Efhami Sisi and Hamid Reza Taghiyari

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DOI: 10.5772/2100

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