Background: With the increasing societal focus on sustainability and the critical need for innovative energy solutions, this research emphasizes the undervalued biomass originating from waste products of agroforestry activities. The traditional practice of disposing of these waste products...

Cocoa plantations (Theobroma cacao) are suggested as agroforestry crops that promote biodiversity conservation. Nonetheless, the role of land-use history on the taxonomic and functional diversity of trees remains poorly explored. In this study, we assessed the effect of two management intensity...

Agroforestry systems play important roles in increasing carbon (C) sequestration and mitigating climate change in western Canada. However, the effect of different agroforestry systems and their component land-uses on soil organic C (SOC) stability is poorly understood. We studied SOC stability...

Although agroforestry offers multiple benefits, its adoption by small-scale farmers remains low in some regions in developing countries. Besides economic motives also intrinsic motivations can influence farmers’ behaviour. This study identifies farmers’ intrinsic drivers to adopt...

Various institutions are working for lowering the CO2 concentration through different strategies like reduction in energy use, developing low or no-carbon fuel technologies, CO2 sequestration by forestry/agroforestry and engineering techniques. Among all the techniques, agroforestry was...

Food and nutrition security is a major global challenge. Enhancing the local production of food is a key alternative in impoverished agrarian countries of the south. One option is agroforestry, promoted and implemented as a land-use system capable of addressing the multifaceted problem of food...

The present study aims at (1) assessing how the existing local formal and informal institutions affect farmer managed natural regeneration (FMNR) practices and, (2) evaluating the benefits of such practices on livelihoods. The propensity score with continuous treatments was used to assess the...

The study examined the benefits of farmers’ participation in agroforestry practices in Taraba State, Nigeria. It highlighted the level of farmers’ participation, the benefits derived from agroforestry, as well as the challenges faced by farmers practising agroforestry. A sample of 420...

Die vorliegende Arbeit zeigt durch die Kombination quantitative und qualitativer Methoden, dass die Zunahme der Wälder in China durch eine Reihe miteinander verbundener Entwicklungsschritte und -muster begründet liegt, welche in ihrer Ausprägung von lokalen Bedingungen bestimmt werden. Als...

Recognition of the importance of forests for local livelihoods, biodiversity and the climate system has spurred a growing interest in understanding the factors that drive forest-cover change. Forest transitions, the change from net deforestation to net reforestation, may follow different...

Introduction -- Developing the appropriate modeling framework for quantitative policy analysis of the food-energy-water nexus -- Leveling the field for biofuels: comparing the economic and environmental impacts of biofuel and other export crops in Malawi -- Evaluating irrigation investments in...

This study examined the level of gender participation in forestry practices in Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State, Nigeria. Specifically, the study examined the gender distribution of operators among various economic activities in forestry practices and gender differences in income....

Bioenergy, sustainability, value chain analysis, livelihood strategies, environment, agroforestry, Tanzania. - Bioenergie, Nachhaltigkeit, Wertschöpfungskettenanalyse, Lebensunterhaltstrategien, Umwelt, Agroforstwirtschaft, Tansania

Economic policies that boost the return to mixed agroforesty, thereby creating financial incentives for land managers to favor these systems over less environmentally friendly land uses, could, in theory, have ancillary environmental benefits. This paper analyses primary and secondary data to...

The patrimonial state under Venezuela's twenty-first century socialism / Humberto García L., president, National Academy of Economic Sciences of Venezuela, Venezuela -- Use and potential of plant species biodiversity in Venezuela agroforestry systems : cultural, environmental, social and...