Highlights: • Water scarcity threatens the sustainability of Mediterranean rainfed agriculture. • Diversification as an adaptation of agriculture to water scarcity. • Field diversification can take the form of intercropping, agroforestry, and service crop. • Diversifying crops (number, abundance, and spatial organization) in landscapes. • Building ...
Published in Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Agriculture and Environment
All problems related to conventional agriculture are a reference to the search for sustainable solutions. In this context, a comparative study between three agroforestry practices (AFP): Citrus sinensis, Olea europaea, and Punica granatum, each associated with Vicia faba (Fabaceae), was conducted on Bordjias Plain. In order to study the impacts of ...
Published in Frontiers in Environmental Science
Agroforestry integrates woody vegetation with crop and/or livestock production to benefit from the ecological and economic interactions. The objective of this paper is to systematically determine the spatial distribution of agroforestry in the EU, and changes in the areas and types of agroforestry from 2009 to 2018. This was achieved using the Land...
(English below) El estudio Minería ilegal, pueblos indígenas e inequidades de género en Madre de Dios, a cargo de la Mag. Marina Irigoyen Alvizuri, socióloga, asesora en género del Programa SERVIR-Amazonia, ha llevado a cabo un análisis de género que busca identificar, comprender y explicar los diferentes roles, carencias y oportunidades de hombres...
Agroforestry practices improve soil health which in turn improves crop nutrient concentrations and quality. This study examined how the agroforestry tree Gliricidia sepium intercropped with soybean, groundnuts, or maize affects crop nutrient compositions. The study was conducted in five Zambian chiefdoms for three crop-growing seasons (2019–2022) o...
Published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Silvopasture—integrating trees, forage, and grazing livestock on the same piece of land—is increasingly popular, given its potential to store carbon (C) and improve farmers’ livelihoods. We examined the C and economic implications of adding different silvopastoral systems to existing pastures in historically forested areas of the eastern United Sta...
Open Access Article / Climate models predict decreasing precipitation and increasing air temperature, causing concern for the future of cocoa in the major producing regions worldwide. It has been suggested that shade could alleviate stress by reducing radiation intensity and conserving soil moisture, but few on-farm cocoa studies are testing this h...
Sustainable land-use systems (SLUS), such as agroforestry with cocoa, implemented with organic fertiliser, with prescribed post-harvest practices and rainwater irrigation, can potentially increase farm productivity, while reducing pressure on natural resources by decreasing deforestation and providing legitimate incomes for rural households. SLUS a...
