Priority science can accelerate agroforestry as a natural climate solution

Drew E. Terasaki Hart (), Samantha Yeo, Maya Almaraz, Damien Beillouin, Rémi Cardinael, Edenise Garcia, Sonja Kay, Sarah Taylor Lovell, Todd S. Rosenstock, Starry Sprenkle-Hyppolite, Fred Stolle, Marta Suber, Bhuwan Thapa, Stephen Wood and Susan C. Cook-Patton
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Drew E. Terasaki Hart: The Nature Conservancy
Samantha Yeo: The Nature Conservancy
Maya Almaraz: The Nature Conservancy
Damien Beillouin: CIRAD, UPR HortSys, Le Lamentin
Rémi Cardinael: AIDA, Université Montpellier, CIRAD
Edenise Garcia: The Nature Conservancy
Sonja Kay: Agroscope
Sarah Taylor Lovell: University of Missouri
Todd S. Rosenstock: Alliance of Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (Bioversity-CIAT)
Starry Sprenkle-Hyppolite: Conservation International
Fred Stolle: World Resources Institute
Marta Suber: World Agroforestry (ICRAF) as part of CIFOR-ICRAF
Bhuwan Thapa: University of Missouri
Stephen Wood: The Nature Conservancy
Susan C. Cook-Patton: The Nature Conservancy

Nature Climate Change, 2023, vol. 13, issue 11, 1179-1190

Abstract: Abstract The expansion of agroforestry could provide substantial climate change mitigation (up to 0.31 Pg C yr−1), comparable to other prominent natural climate solutions such as reforestation. Yet, climate-focused agroforestry efforts grapple with ambiguity about which agroforestry actions provide mitigation, uncertainty about the magnitude of that mitigation and inability to reliably track progress. In this Perspective, we define agroforestry as a natural climate solution, discuss current understanding of the controls on farm-scale mitigation potential and highlight recent innovation on emergent, high-resolution remote sensing methods to enable detection, measurement and monitoring. We also assess the status of agroforestry in the context of global climate ambitions, highlighting regions of underappreciated expansion opportunity and identifying priorities for policy and praxis.

Date: 2023
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