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Agroforestry is a land use management system in which combinations of trees or shrubs are grown with crops or livestockLivestock farming systems (pastures). Agroforestry combines agricultural and forestry technologies to create more diverse, productive, profitable, healthy, and sustainable land-use systems. Farmers in many countries and regions practice agroforestry to meet their demands for crops (grains) and forageForage (both roughage and grains). ResearchResearch and practice of agroforestry demonstrated that it improves crop productionCrop production diversity, soil quality through increasing organic matter, biological nitrogen fixation, soil microbial populationPopulation and diversity to attain food securityFood security. Practice of agroforestry also helps in reducing wind erosion, reclamation of degraded land, enhance soil carbon sequestration, reduce the greenhouse gases and help in mitigating the global climate changeClimate change effects. Since production of crops or trees can be arranged in spatial or temporal manner, agroforestry practice can also be modified according to changing climatic conditions. While agroforestry is practiced successfully in many parts of the world, it faces challenges such as prolonged droughtDrought, degraded soil with low fertility and often water logging and soil salinity in theArid arid and hyper-arid regionsArid regions. Farmers in arid and hyper-arid region have been able to overcome these challenges by selecting species that are suited for local climate and meets farmers demand and mitigate the effects of global climate changeClimate change through preventing land degradation, increased carbon sequestration, soil organic carbon, and decreased greenhouse gases emission. In addition, new crop and tree species have been used successfully to utilize salt affected areas of the arid region. Policy and institutional support and some form of incentives can attract and motivate farmers in theArid arid regionsArid regions to adopt agroforestry in a larger scale. Future researchResearch should focus on innovative practices to promote agroforestry in the hyper-arid regions for enhancing soil fertility, undertaking trials for identification of salt tolerant tree species to be used to facilitate bio-drainage, sub-region specific best practices and cost–benefit analysis of small scale practices to ensure production and financial sustainabilitySustainability. This book chapter highlights the suitability of agroforestry systems for theArid arid regionsArid regions and provide guidelines through which it can be practiced for improved crop productionCrop production for food and nutritional securities, amelioration of local micro-climate and to mitigate the effects of global climate change.

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Agroforestry: A Nature Based Solution to Mitigate Climate Change Impacts and to Improve Crop Production Systems for Food Security in Arid Regions

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    2026年

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  • M. Anisul Islam

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Agroforestry is a land use management system in which combinations of trees or shrubs are grown with crops or livestockLivestock farming systems (pastures). Agroforestry combines agricultural and forestry technologies to create more diverse, productive, profitable, healthy, and sustainable land-use systems. Farmers in many countries and regions practice agroforestry to meet their demands for crops (grains) and forageForage (both roughage and grains). ResearchResearch and practice of agroforestry demonstrated that it improves crop productionCrop production diversity, soil quality through increasing organic matter, biological nitrogen fixation, soil microbial populationPopulation and diversity to attain food securityFood security. Practice of agroforestry also helps in reducing wind erosion, reclamation of degraded land, enhance soil carbon sequestration, reduce the greenhouse gases and help in mitigating the global climate changeClimate change effects. Since production of crops or trees can be arranged in spatial or temporal manner, agroforestry practice can also be modified according to changing climatic conditions. While agroforestry is practiced successfully in many parts of the world, it faces challenges such as prolonged droughtDrought, degraded soil with low fertility and often water logging and soil salinity in theArid arid and hyper-arid regionsArid regions. Farmers in arid and hyper-arid region have been able to overcome these challenges by selecting species that are suited for local climate and meets farmers demand and mitigate the effects of global climate changeClimate change through preventing land degradation, increased carbon sequestration, soil organic carbon, and decreased greenhouse gases emission. In addition, new crop and tree species have been used successfully to utilize salt affected areas of the arid region. Policy and institutional support and some form of incentives can attract and motivate farmers in theArid arid regionsArid regions to adopt agroforestry in a larger scale. Future researchResearch should focus on innovative practices to promote agroforestry in the hyper-arid regions for enhancing soil fertility, undertaking trials for identification of salt tolerant tree species to be used to facilitate bio-drainage, sub-region specific best practices and cost–benefit analysis of small scale practices to ensure production and financial sustainabilitySustainability. This book chapter highlights the suitability of agroforestry systems for theArid arid regionsArid regions and provide guidelines through which it can be practiced for improved crop productionCrop production for food and nutritional securities, amelioration of local micro-climate and to mitigate the effects of global climate change.