Agroforestry integrates woody perennials with arable crops, livestock, or fodder in the same
piece of land, promoting the more efficient utilization of resources as compared to …

Agroforestry (AF) has the potential to restore degraded lands, provide a broader range of
ecosystem goods and services such as carbon (C) sequestration and high biodiversity, and …

Agroforestry is crucial for improving water quality deteriorated by anthropogenic activities
due to the use of chemical substances, including nitrogen (N) and phosphorous (P) in …

Soil erosion in semi-arid climate leading to the development of ravine lands is the most
severe form of land degradation. Ravine lands are formed when soil is not fully covered by …

Precipitation and temperature are important factors affecting soil erosion especially in mid-
high latitude areas. The effects of climatic factors on soil erosion have been observed in …

Mercury is recognized as a global pollutant. A large amount of elemental mercury was used
in the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, TN and Hg is still present in the water-shed …

Abstract Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) globally addresses land use-tenure-
restoration tradeoffs. The Atlantic Forest Connection Projetc, a Brazilian collaborative …

Artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM) in the Amazon results in the dumping of tons of
mercury into the environment annually. Despite consensus on the impacts of mercury on …

The resource nexus consists of a framework to address interlinkages between natural
resources and systems that provide water, energy, food and waste management. It …

The conversion of forests to agricultural crops impacts these ecosystems, causing negative
changes in the biological, physical and chemical soil attributes. Agroforestry systems (AFs) …