Agroforestry creates carbon sinks whilst enhancing the environment in agricultural landscapes in Europe

Kay, Sonja; Rega, Carlo; Moreno, Gerardo; Herder, Michael den; Palma, J.H.N.; Borek, Robert; Crous-Duran, Josep; Freese, Dirk; Giannitsopoulos, Michail; Graves, Anil; Jäger, Mareike; Lamersdorf, Norbert; Memedemin, Daniyar; Mosquera-Losada, María Rosa; Pantera, Anastasia; Paracchini, Maria Luisa; Paris, P.; Roces‐Díaz, José V.; Rolo, Víctor; Rosati, A.; Şandor, Mignon; Smith, Jo; Szerencsits, Erich; Varga, Andrea; Viaud, Valérie; Wawer, Rafał; Burgess, Paul J.; Herzog, Félix

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.02.025

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“…Among agroforestry systems, silvoarable Alley-Cropping Systems (ACS) are characterized by the intercropping of crops and wide-row trees [1], providing a variety of products, such as food, feed, fibers, fuelwood and timber, while increasing the potential delivery of agroecosystems services [2]. Nonetheless, farmers are reluctant to implement agroforestry systems because of the potential loss of gross production due to: (i) the reduction of arable surface and (ii) the risk of lower crop yields driven by the competition for resources between crops and trees [3].…”

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Effect of Tree Presence and Soil Characteristics on Soybean Yield and Quality in an Innovative Alley-Cropping System

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Agroforestry is indicated as a farming practice suited to enhance ecosystem services generated by cropping systems. However, farmers are often reluctant to implement agroforestry systems due to the potential yield loss of crops. In a field trial, soybean was intercropped with poplar short-rotation-coppice rows in an alley-cropping system with 13.5 m wide alleys, in order to assess the effect of tree presence on soybean yield and quality. The light availability (LA) was significantly affected by the tree presence, with an increasing effect along the season due to tree growth, being at its lowest in the tree–crop interface positions (West and East). Significant effects of the tree-distance and LA were registered on soybean yield, with the highest reduction of soybean yield in the West (−78%) and East (−35%) positions. Crude fat content in soybean grain did not vary among positions in the alley, while crude protein content was the lowest in the most shaded position (West −8% than the highest value). The assessment of spatial variability among plots of measured soil characteristics highlighted no significant effect of pedological conditions upon soybean yield. Thus, in our study, the LA effect was more important than soil characteristics in determining a detrimental effect of competition for resources between soybean and poplar. Conversely, soybean quality was affected by soil characteristics, since crude fat significantly correlated with soil nutrients, pH, soil organic matter and soil texture.

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“…On the one hand, this process makes it possible to increase the area of unmanaged land. These lands, on which the anthropogenic impact is reduced, participate in maintaining the ecological balance of the territory (Kay et al, 2019). Increasing the acreage of vegetated lands allows reducing erosion losses (Panagos et al, 2015).…”

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Land Monitoring Application Results In Land Management On The Samara Region Example

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Vasilieva²,

Tarbaev³

2020

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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“…On the environmental sphere, carbon sequestration creates gross primary production, the absorption and decomposition of atmospheric CO 2 by plants through photosynthesis, raises ecosystem productivity, and contributes to mitigating global warming in natural ecosystem of economic regions [9,10]. On the economic sphere, carbon sequestration promotes human productivity and makes output value added by offering abundant natural resources for human activities of production and life in the human activity circle of economic regions [1,11,36].…”

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“…On the aspect of human activity, carbon sequestration stimulates human productivity and increases output value by offering abundant natural resources for human production activity and economic development. Forest carbon sinks, for example, promote efficiency of ecological economy and green total factor productivity of forests by supply of forest coverage, fresh air, green environment and wood, medicine, mushrooms, and other human production and living necessities [1,11,12]. Especially under the challenge of the green paradox where carbon tax or subsidies to carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS) technology cause higher global emissions through stimulating fossil fuel production [13][14][15], to disclose the endogenous characteristics of carbon sequestration to total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its driver decomposition is extremely inevitable and valuable for sustainable economic development and environmental conservation.…”

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“…Examples are the exploration on environmentally sensitive productivity growth of 41 developing and developed countries [29], green and environmental TFP measure of China's provinces and regional economies [30][31][32][33], the drivers of TFP change with an illustrative example of 14 EU countries [34], and aggregate green productivity growth estimation at the aggregate level in countries from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) [35]. Carbon sequestration's endogenous feature to TFP growth is ignored, although a few scholars discussed the functions of forest carbon sinks on TFP of forest and economic growth [1,11,36], however, at the aggregate level, carbon sequestration is not introduced as an impact factor to measure the TFP growth in the literature; and again, most studies on TFP are based on perspective of administrative area, without consideration of watershed geographic correlations of TFP growth in natural river basin regions.…”

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Carbon Sequestration Total Factor Productivity Growth and Decomposition: A Case of the Yangtze River Economic Belt of China

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Jin-lian

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To find out whether carbon sequestration is both effective at mitigating climate change and promoting economic growth, in this paper, by adopting a stochastic frontier panel model with translog production function, carbon sequestration is incorporated into endogenous variables to establish estimation model of carbon sequestration total factor productivity (CSTFP) and examine CSTFP growth and its drivers decomposition of the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) of China in three estimations. The result shows that, (1) compared to traditional TFP growth, CSTFP growth in YREB is improved by 26.74 percentages (from −26.55% to 0.20%), contributed by three positive drivers of technical efficiency change (28.59%), technological progress change (18.55%), and scale efficiency change (3.99%); (2) different CSTFP growth exists in three watershed segments of YREB, which firstly is the upper reaches (0.62%), then the lower reaches (0.11%) and the middle reaches (−0.14%). Improved CSTFP growth owes to carbon sequestration’s harmonious symbiosis where natural ecosystems and human activities are naturally blended while insufficient synergies are bottleneck for promotion of CSTFP growth in YREB. Related policy suggestions are provided in the end. The proposed analysis framework is efficient to disclose CSTFP growth in YREB, and can also be applied to similar analysis on CSTFP in regions and extended to multi-country/region analysis.

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Agroforestry creates carbon sinks whilst enhancing the environment in agricultural landscapes in Europe

Cited by 167 publications

References 58 publications

Effect of Tree Presence and Soil Characteristics on Soybean Yield and Quality in an Innovative Alley-Cropping System

Effect of Tree Presence and Soil Characteristics on Soybean Yield and Quality in an Innovative Alley-Cropping System

Land Monitoring Application Results In Land Management On The Samara Region Example

Carbon Sequestration Total Factor Productivity Growth and Decomposition: A Case of the Yangtze River Economic Belt of China

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