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Agroforestry

• The state of the world’s forests 2022: forest pathways for green recovery and building inclusive, resilient and sustainable economies

  <p>The State of the World&rsquo;s Forests 2022 explores the potential of three forest pathways - halting deforestation and maintaining forests; restoring degraded lands and expanding agroforestry; and sustainably using forests and building green value chains - for achieving green recovery and tackling environmental crises, including climate change and biodiversity loss</p>

  • 02/05/2022

  • FAO
  • • Forests
    • Trees
    • Ecosystem Services
    • Agroforestry
    • Deforestation
    • Climate Change
    • India
    • Global

• Carbon farming and credit for mitigating greenhouse gases

  <p>Carbon farming describes a collection of eco-friendly techniques that have the ability to increase carbon sink into soil, i.e. carbon sequestration. Increasing C sink in the soil will help reduce the

  • 10/10/2015

  • Current Science
  • • Agriculture
    • Climate Change
    • Green House Gases
    • Carbon Sequestration
    • Agroforestry
    • Agroecosystem Planning
    • Carbon Sinks
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  ‘Involve farmers in fight against climate change’

  A regional consultation on agro forestry on Thursday underscored the need for enabling policies to ensure that farmers get technology and financial incentives to integrate trees and shrubs on farmland

  • 09/10/2015

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Climate Change
    • Agroforestry
    • Land Degradation
    • Ecosystems
    • Farmers
    • Irrigation
    • Climate Impacts
    • Climate Mitigation

• Future of food: shaping a climate-smart global food system

  The report aims to help improve the productivity and resilience of the current food system, and to make agriculture part of the solution to climate change. It presents compelling evidence and new tools

  • 01/10/2015

  • The World Bank
  • • Agriculture
    • Climate Change
    • Green House Gases
    • Food Security
    • Poverty
    • India
    • Global
    • Agroforestry
    • Global Warming

• On the rebound: soil organic carbon stocks can bounce back to near forest levels when agroforests replace agriculture in southern India

  <p>Tropical agroforestry has an enormous potential to sequester carbon while simultaneously producing agricultural yields and tree products. The amount of soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestered is however

  • 21/08/2015

  • SOIL
  • • Agroforestry
    • Soil Capability
    • Carbon Sequestration
    • Coffee
    • Mango
    • Coconut
    • Home Gardens
    • Land Use
    • Kerala
    • Karnataka
    • Andhra Pradesh
    • India
    • Agriculture

• The role of forests in a green economy transformation in Africa

  This report explores the role of forests in a green economy transformation in Africa. Its aim is to present policymakers with a strong rationale for linking forests and REDD+ planning with green economy

  • 01/08/2015

  • International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
  • • Forests
    • Economy
    • REDD
    • Africa
    • Forest Resources
    • Forest Products
    • Ecosystem Services
    • Deforestation
    • Forest Management
    • Agroforestry
    • Firewood
    • Carbon Market

• Rwanda: New Drive to Promote Agro-Forestry

  The world Agro-forestry Centre moved to strengthen partnership with natural resources, agriculture and infrastructure ministries in identifying smart agro-forestry systems to help develop 'integrated-food-energy

  • 30/07/2015

  • All Africa
  • • Forests
    • Agriculture
    • Rwanda
    • Agroforestry
    • Soil Erosion
    • Africa

• Understanding mountain soils

  Mountain soils are the fragile foundations of ecosystems that ultimately provide water for more than half the world's population. A new FAO book offers technical insights on the sustainable management

  • 23/06/2015

  • FAO
  • • Soil Resources
    • Soil Erosion
    • Mountains
    • Agriculture
    • Ecosystem Services
    • Agroforestry
    • India
    • Global
    • Land Use
    • Climate Change
    • Shifting Cultivation
    • Food Security

• Overview of the scientific, political and financial landscape of climate-smart agriculture in West Africa

  The agricultural sector plays a key role in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). As the backbone of the economy, it affects society at many levels since national economies and people’s

  • 15/06/2015

  • CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change
  • • Climate Change
    • Agriculture
    • Africa
    • Climate Mitigation
    • Climate Adaptation
    • Crops
    • Livestock
    • Water Resources
    • Fisheries
    • Agroforestry

• Land cover changes and forest landscape evolution (1985–2009) in a typical Mediterranean agroforestry system (high Agri Valley)

  The present study focuses on the transformations of a typical Mediterranean agroforestry landscape of southern Italy (high Agri Valley – Basilicata region) that occurred over 24 years. In this period,

  • 11/06/2015

  • Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
  • • Agroforestry
    • Italy
    • Remote Sensing
    • Land Use
    • Ecosystem Services

• Khejri, the king of Indian Thar desert is under phenophase change

  <p>Vegetation of Indian Thar region is ecologically important, though fragile. Any change in its composition and trait will ultimately impact the productivity and sustainability of the system and the region.

  • 10/06/2015

  • Current Science
  • • Thar Desert
    • Trees
    • Agroforestry
    • Agriculture
    • Farmers
    • Traditional Knowledge
    • Rajasthan
    • Gujarat
    • Haryana
    • Punjab
    • Climate Change
    • Global Warming