Implications of wide-scale cropland restoration: A crucial element of the forest landscape restoration approach

Prapti Bhandary, Alessandro (Alex) De Pinto, Richard Robertson, Salome Begeladze, Chetan Kumar, Ho Young Kwon, Timothy Thomas, Nicola Cenacchi and Jawoo Koo

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Abstract: The results of this study reveal that the full inclusion of crop production in the forest landscape restoration approach could produce largescale, worldwide benefits for food security and therefore facilitate a wide uptake of restoration practices and the implementation of large restoration projects. The positive impacts are multifaceted and significant in size: a reduction in malnourished children ranging from three to six million; a reduced number of people at risk of hunger, estimated to be between 70 and 151 million; reduced pressure for expansion of cropland; increased soil fertility; and reduced greenhouse gas emissions, while also increasing yields and productivity. The benefits from restoration practices on crop production strongly suggest that a forest landscape restoration approach that meaningfully integrates agriculture can facilitate the implementation of restoration plans on large amounts of land.

Keywords: models; child nutrition; agricultural production; landscape conservation; decision-support systems; soil fertility; farmland; deforestation; agriculture; malnutrition; sustainable forest management; famine; food security; land degradation; food prices; forestry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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