Agroforestry benefits and challenges for adoption in Europe and beyond

M Sollen-Norrlin, BB Ghaley, NLJ Rintoul - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Soil degradation is a global concern, decreasing the soil's ability to perform a multitude of
functions. In Europe, one of the leading causes of soil degradation is unsustainable …

Transforming agroforestry in contested landscapes: a win-win solution to trade-offs in ecosystem services in Nepal

K Aryal, T Maraseni, A Apan - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Trade-offs in ecosystem services (ES) is increasingly becoming a pressing issue in
sustainability science, to deal with supply constraints of landscape and divergence in …

Agroforestry and organic agriculture

A Rosati, R Borek, S Canali - Agroforestry Systems, 2021 - Springer
Current conventional agriculture is considered unsustainable and inadequate to address
great societal challenges such as climate change, environmental pollution, food security …

Agroforestry for sustainable landscape management

T Plieninger, J Muñoz-Rojas, LE Buck, SJ Scherr - Sustainability Science, 2020 - Springer
Agroforestry and sustainable landscape management are key strategies for implementing
the UN-Sustainable Development Goals across the world's production landscapes …

Agroforestry is paying off–Economic evaluation of ecosystem services in European landscapes with and without agroforestry systems

S Kay, A Graves, JHN Palma, G Moreno… - Ecosystem …, 2019 - Elsevier
The study assessed the economic performance of marketable ecosystem services
(ES)(biomass production) and non-marketable ecosystem services and dis-services …

Silvopasture in the USA: A systematic review of natural resource professional and producer-reported benefits, challenges, and management activities

MM Smith, G Bentrup, T Kellerman… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2022 - Elsevier
Silvopasture is the deliberate integration of trees, forage, and grazing livestock on the same
piece of land. These agroecosystems are intensively managed for multiple benefits …

Scanning agroforestry-based solutions for climate change mitigation and adaptation in Europe

M Hernández-Morcillo, P Burgess, J Mirck… - … Science & Policy, 2018 - Elsevier
Agroforestry, the integration of trees and shrubs with livestock and/or crops, can make a
substantial contribution to mitigating and enabling adaptation to climate change. However …

Advances in European agroforestry: results from the AGFORWARD project

PJ Burgess, A Rosati - Agroforestry systems, 2018 - Springer
In global terms, European farms produce high yields of safe and high quality food but this
depends on the use of many off-farm inputs and the associated greenhouse gas emissions …

Incorporating diversity into animal production systems can increase their performance and strengthen their resilience

B Dumont, L Puillet, G Martin, D Savietto… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Animal production systems (APSs) have long been transformed through intensification,
specialization and geographical concentration, leading them to become major …

Abundance, diversity, and function of soil microorganisms in temperate alley-cropping agroforestry systems: A review

L Beule, A Vaupel, VE Moran-Rodas - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Modern temperate alley-cropping systems combine rows of trees with rows of crops
(agroforestry), which allows for diverse interspecific interactions such as the complementary …