Bøger af Lester Bane

Agroforestry is a type of land management system where trees or shrubs are planted around or surrounding the crops or pastureland. Such type of land management helps in producing a variety of products such as fruits, wood products, pharmaceuticals and other valuable products that can be traded commercially. It ensures long-term sustainability of agriculture. Some of its other benefits include improved farmer livelihoods through wealth creation, higher yields from staple food crops, carbon sequestration, increased biodiversity, and enhanced soil structure and health. Agroforestry helps blend forestry and farming, which helps restore the land by reducing soil erosion and regulating the water accessibility to restore the land. The practice of agroforestry leads to ecosystem services, which refers to the human benefits apart from an increase in farm produce. Agroforestry-based ecosystem services help in improving agricultural sustainability by ensuring better usage of fertilizers, enhanced ground cover, improved insect resistance, and weed avoidance. This book elucidates the concepts and innovative models around prospective developments with respect to agroforestry-based ecosystem services and environmental benefits of agroforestry. It will also provide interesting topics for research, which interested readers can take up.

Agroforestry refers to a land-use management system wherein trees or shrubs are grown among crops or pastureland. Agroforestry-based ecosystem services refer to human benefits that are achieved beyond the farm scale as a result of farm trees' interaction with soil and water, carbon storage, and biodiversity. This intentional combination of agriculture and forestry has multiple benefits, such as enhanced yields from staple food crops, enhanced farmer livelihoods from income generation, increased biodiversity, improved soil structure and health, reduced erosion, and carbon sequestration. The policies that promote agroforestry-based ecosystem services result in on-farm benefits, landscape and watershed benefits, and national and global benefits. This book is compiled in such a manner, that it will provide in-depth knowledge about agroforestry-based ecosystem services. It will also provide interesting topics for research, which interested readers can take up. The book is a vital tool for all researching or studying agroforestry.