Agroforestry for high value tree systems in Europe

Pantera, Anastasia; Burgess, Paul J.; Losada, R. Mosquera; Moreno, Gerardo; López‐Díaz, M. L.; Corroyer, N.; McAdam, J.; Rosati, A.; Papadopoulos, Andreas; Graves, Anil; Rigueiro-Rodríguez, A.; Ferreiro-Domínguez, N.; Fernández-Lorenzo, J.L.; Hernández, María del Pilar; Papanastasis, V. P.; Mantzanas, K.; Lerberghe, Philippe Van; Malignier, N.

doi:10.1007/s10457-017-0181-7

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“…Compared with those in the peach pattern, the tradeoffs in the pomegranate pattern were minimal, mainly owing to higher yields, higher prices, and a finer canopy. All of these results were similar to those obtained from research in European orchards, in which the tradeoffs between provisioning, supporting, and regulating services are closely related to yield, market price, and fertility management [53].…”

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Evaluation and Tradeoff Analysis of Ecosystem Service for Typical Land-Use Patterns in the Karst Region of Southwest China

Zou

Zeng

Wang

et al. 2020

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Although many land-use patterns have been established to restore vegetation and eliminate poverty in the karst area in southwest China, the ecosystem services (ESs) of these patterns are still not fully understood. To compare the differences in seven typical monoculture patterns and three agroforestry patterns, their ESs and tradeoffs were analyzed within the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Framework. Compared with the local traditional corn pattern, the marigold pattern improved provisioning, regulating, and cultural services by >100%. The pomegranate pattern provided far more provisioning services than the other patterns. The apple + soybean intercropping pattern reduced regulating services, and eventually, its Total ESs (TES) and ecosystem multifunctionality index (EMF) also decreased. Cultural services will be enhanced by the introduction of fruit trees, as well as intercropping. Orange + peach had the greatest negative tradeoffs between provisioning and regulating services (P-R), provisioning and supporting services (P-S), and provisioning and cultural services (P-C), which indicates that the provisioning services urgently require improvement. Peach + pumpkin intercropping decreased the negative tradeoffs of P-R, P-S, and P-C (all > 10%), while pomegranate + grass intercropping increased the negative tradeoffs of R-S and R-C (all > 100%). Our results suggest that all six of these patterns are worthy of promotion but the pomegranate pattern should be given priority. Among the three intercropping patterns studied herein, the apple + soybean pattern should be redesigned to improve performance.

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Evaluation and Tradeoff Analysis of Ecosystem Service for Typical Land-Use Patterns in the Karst Region of Southwest China

Zou

Zeng

Wang

et al. 2020

Forests

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“…After apple trees produced fruit, the partial LER for apple promoted the land use efficiency of the alley cropping, whose LERs were greater than 1.0, and further motivated the 37.7% increase in annual PV in the alley cropping systems compared with the corresponding monocultures. This phenomenon has been commonly observed in other literature [42,43]. During the alley cropping period, alley cropping reduced the production costs compared to the monocultures (Table 6).…”

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Alley Cropping Increases Land Use Efficiency and Economic Profitability Across the Combination Cultivation Period

Gao

et al. 2019

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Alley cropping allows the famer to effectively use available resources and yield more benefits. Choosing suitable associated crop and mitigating the competition between trees and crops are crucial for designing the alley cropping systems. We conducted a long-term experiment, including apple (Malus pumila)/peanut (Arachis hypogaea), apple/millet (Setaria italica) and apple/maize (Zea mays) alley cropping systems with conventional intercropping distance, and corresponding monocultures (Exp.1), and a short-term experiment with improved intercropping distance in the same three combinations (Exp.2) in the Loess Plateau, China. The results showed crop yields in three alley cropping systems were lower than the corresponding monocultures. Apple yields were significantly constrained by millet and maize in the alley cropping systems, but not sensitive to the presence of peanut. Land equivalent ratios (LERs) ranged from 0.44 to 0.89 before the tree bore fruit. The LERs were greater than 1.0 after the tree bore fruit, and the apple trees made a decisive contribution to the land use advantage. Net present values of three alley cropping systems were on average 60.1% higher than the corresponding monocultures across the alley cropping period. The maximum annual present value in the first–fifth, sixth and seventh–ninth years after the alley cropping establishment was observed in the apple/maize, apple/millet and apple/peanut system, respectively. These results highlight that choosing the optimal alley cropping management and suitable associated crops at different years after establishment may allow farmers to increase the land use efficiency and economic profitability.

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“…2017; Pantera et al 2018). The addition of trees to arable systems offer a range of positive ecological effects such increased carbon sequestration (Palma et al 2007b;Cong et al 2015;Cardinael et al 2017), enhanced biodiversity (Tsonkova et al 2012;Torralba et al 2016), reductions in nutrient loss and pesticide runoff (Pardon et al 2017), and improvements of water availability and formation of positive microclimatic conditions (Quinkenstein et al 2009).…”

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Modelling the yield and profitability of intercropped walnut systems in Croatia

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In Croatia, farmers are showing increasing interest in establishing walnut orchards for nut production on arable land due to higher anticipated net margins. One way to address the lack of profitability in the initial years when nut yields are low may be to plant arable intercrops. The anticipated impacts of this practice were assessed using a biophysical simulation model (Yield-SAFE) to determine the growth and yield of crops and trees in arable, orchard, and silvoarable systems, and an economic farm model (Farm-SAFE) was used to assess their profitability. The walnut orchard and the intercropped orchard systems were simulated assuming tree densities of 170, 135, and 100 trees ha−1, to determine the profitability and break-even date of the systems. The biophysical simulation predicted a decline in arable intercrop yields over time in all tree density scenarios. However, analysis of productivity of intercropped systems showed that intercropping was more productive than separate arable and walnut production for all tree density scenarios. From financial aspect, the return from intercropping helped to offset some of the initial orchard establishment costs and the arable intercrop remained profitable until the sixth year after tree planting. The modelling predicted that a system with 170 trees ha−1 that included intercropping for the first 6 years provided the greatest cumulative net margin after 20 years. The financial benefit of intercropping over the first 6 years opposed to monoculture walnut fruit production appeared to be consistent across the three tree densities studied. These results suggest that silvoarable agroforestry is profitable approach to establishing walnut orchards.

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Agroforestry for high value tree systems in Europe

Abstract: Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l'analisi dell'economia agraria, centro di ricerca per l'olivicoltura e l'industria olearia (CREA-OLI), via Nursina 2, 06049 Spoleto (PG), Italy,

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Evaluation and Tradeoff Analysis of Ecosystem Service for Typical Land-Use Patterns in the Karst Region of Southwest China

Evaluation and Tradeoff Analysis of Ecosystem Service for Typical Land-Use Patterns in the Karst Region of Southwest China

Alley Cropping Increases Land Use Efficiency and Economic Profitability Across the Combination Cultivation Period

Modelling the yield and profitability of intercropped walnut systems in Croatia

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