Agroforestry (AF) is a brilliant land use that covers 1.6 billion ha (78% in the tropics and 22% in the temperate regions), which enhances biodiversity, land productiveness, and livelihood and maintains eco-restoration with global sustainability. Landscape restoration through AF is a genuine strategy that helps improve land quality and maximizes biodiversity along with the delivery of precious ecosystem services. Therefore, AFs (agroforestry systems) intensify environmental services, including soil, food, and climate security, to ensure net zero emissions globally. The AFs reconcile with landscape management and improve sustainability in the long term. Practicing AFs from the perspective of landscape management promotes sustainability in global production and ecosystem health. However, land degradation and desertification affect AF production, people’s livelihood, and environmental health and ecosystem services. In this context, land degradation neutrality (LDN)-based policy must be framed, which can be possible through adopting AFs that makes farmer’s benefits as livelihood generation at a global scale. A constructive roadmap is needed to encourage farmers to adopt AFs in any degraded wasteland to restore soil fertility and health of plant-soil system with a greater scale of sustainability.

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Agroforestry for Landscape Restoration and Sustainability

  • Abhishek Raj,
  • Manoj Kumar Jhariya,
  • Vimal Chandra Pandey

摘要

Agroforestry (AF) is a brilliant land use that covers 1.6 billion ha (78% in the tropics and 22% in the temperate regions), which enhances biodiversity, land productiveness, and livelihood and maintains eco-restoration with global sustainability. Landscape restoration through AF is a genuine strategy that helps improve land quality and maximizes biodiversity along with the delivery of precious ecosystem services. Therefore, AFs (agroforestry systems) intensify environmental services, including soil, food, and climate security, to ensure net zero emissions globally. The AFs reconcile with landscape management and improve sustainability in the long term. Practicing AFs from the perspective of landscape management promotes sustainability in global production and ecosystem health. However, land degradation and desertification affect AF production, people’s livelihood, and environmental health and ecosystem services. In this context, land degradation neutrality (LDN)-based policy must be framed, which can be possible through adopting AFs that makes farmer’s benefits as livelihood generation at a global scale. A constructive roadmap is needed to encourage farmers to adopt AFs in any degraded wasteland to restore soil fertility and health of plant-soil system with a greater scale of sustainability.