Branching out: Agroforestry as a climate change mitigation and adaptation tool for agriculture

Schoeneberger, Michele; Bentrup, Gary; Gooijer, H. de; Soolanayakanahally, Raju; Sauer, T. J.; Brandle, James R.; Zhou, Xinhua; Current, Dean

doi:10.2489/jswc.67.5.128a

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“…It is widely adopted as a climate-smart practice due to its potentials for climate change mitigation, adaptation, crop productivity and food security (Nair et al 2009;Mbow et al 2014;Luedeling et al 2014;Coulibaly et al 2017). Agroforestry enhances soil organic matter (SOM), agriculture productivity, carbon sequestration, water retention, agrobiodiversity and farmers' income (Nyong et al 2007;Schoeneberger et al 2012;Zomer et al 2016;Paul et al 2017). Carbon sequestration through agroforestry influenced by several factors such as type of agroecosystems, tree species, age of tree species, geographical location, environmental factors and management practices (Jose 2009).…”

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Traditional agriculture: a climate-smart approach for sustainable food production

Singh

2017

Energ. Ecol. Environ.

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Sustainable food production is one of the major challenges of the twenty-first century in the era of global environmental problems such as climate change, increasing population and natural resource degradation including soil degradation and biodiversity loss. Climate change is among the greatest threats to agricultural systems. Green Revolution though multiplied agricultural production several folds but at the huge environmental cost including climate change. It jeopardized the ecological integrity of agroecosystems by intensive use of fossil fuels, natural resources, agrochemicals and machinery. Moreover, it threatened the age-old traditional agricultural practices. Agriculture is one of the largest sectors that sustain livelihood to maximum number of people and contribute to climate change. Therefore, a climate-smart approach to sustainable food production is the need of hour. Traditional agriculture is getting increased attention worldwide in context of sustainable food production in changing climate. The present article advocates traditional agriculture as a climate-smart approach for the sustainable food production and also deliberates the correlation between climate change and agriculture.

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Section: Agroforestrymentioning

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Traditional agriculture: a climate-smart approach for sustainable food production

Singh

2017

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“…During the 50-year lifespan of the windbreaks, we could expect a reduction in emissions on the order of 0.5 and 3.3 Tg CE. Values based on the number of farms for each size that can be placed within a million ha: 17,000 ha (small), 3300 ha (medium), and 7700 ha (large); 2 To derive the amount of CE per ha, the total amount of CE is divided by the number of ha of small, median, or large farms.…”

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“…1 Crop system identifier, for more information the reader is refers to Table A1. 2 Crop yields from crop budgets (2014), these budgets were transformed to bushels ha (1 ha = 2.47 acres); 3 Calculated based on diesel fuel. This fuel has an emission factor of 10,180 g CO 2 per gallon and 2.77 kg C gal −1 [35].…”

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“…One such approach is a change in consumptive behavior resulting in reduction in fossil fuel usage, also referred to as avoided GHG emissions. In the agricultural sector, forestry and agroforestry are recognized as a suite of management practices that, besides providing several climate change adaptation services, can also provide both C sequestration and avoided GHG emission opportunities [2]. Within the suite of practices, incorporating field and farmstead windbreak practices into farm management plans seems to be a particularly promising option for storing carbon and for reducing emissions from farm operations [3].…”

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Potential of Windbreak Trees to Reduce Carbon Emissions by Agricultural Operations in the US

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Schoeneberger

2017

Forests

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Abstract:Along with sequestering C in forest, trees on farms are able to contribute to greenhouse mitigation through emission avoidance mechanisms. To evaluate the magnitude of these contributions, emission avoidance contributions for field and farmstead windbreak designs in regions across the United States were estimated, along with greenhouse gas (GHG) emission budgets for corn, soybean, winter wheat, and potato operations. We looked at farming scenarios with large (600 ha), mid (300 ha), and small-size (60 ha) farms containing farmsteads built before and after 2000, and growing different cropping systems. Windbreak scenarios were assumed to be up to 5% of the crop area for field windbreaks, while emission avoidance for farmstead windbreaks were assumed to provide a 10% and 25% reduction in energy usage for space conditioning and heating, respectively. Total reduction of C equivalent (CE) emissions by windbreaks on farm systems ranged from a low of 0.9 Mg CE year −1 for a 60-ha farm with a home built before 2000 to 39.1 Mg CE year −1 for a 600-ha farm with a home built after 2000. By reducing fossil fuel usage from farm operations, windbreaks provide a promising strategy for reducing GHG emissions from agriculture in the USA.

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“…Previous studies have assessed how specific AFOLU activities can contribute to mitigation and adaptation, for example, agroforestry (Schoeneberger et al 2012), and how policies and financial mechanisms can incentivize AFOLU projects that address adaptation and mitigation simultaneously (Duguma et al 2014b). Some studies have shown that forest mitigation projects rarely consider adaptation (Guariguata et al 2008;Reyer et al 2009) and others have called for more research on the conditions under which adaptation and mitigation goals can be effectively integrated in AFOLU activities (Dang et al 2003;Klein et al 2007;Verchot et al 2007;Locatelli et al 2011).…”

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Addressing Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Together: A Global Assessment of Agriculture and Forestry Projects

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Locatelli

Chazarin

2015

Environmental Management

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Adaptation and mitigation share the ultimate purpose of reducing climate change impacts. However, they tend to be considered separately in projects and policies because of their different objectives and scales. Agriculture and forestry are related to both adaptation and mitigation: they contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and removals, are vulnerable to climate variations, and form part of adaptive strategies for rural livelihoods. We assessed how climate change project design documents (PDDs) considered a joint contribution to adaptation and mitigation in forestry and agriculture in the tropics, by analyzing 201 PDDs from adaptation funds, mitigation instruments, and project standards [e.g., climate community and biodiversity (CCB)]. We analyzed whether PDDs established for one goal reported an explicit contribution to the other (i.e., whether mitigation PDDs contributed to adaptation and vice versa). We also examined whether the proposed activities or expected outcomes allowed for potential contributions to the two goals. Despite the separation between the two goals in international and national institutions, 37 % of the PDDs explicitly mentioned a contribution to the other objective, although only half of those substantiated it. In addition, most adaptation (90 %) and all mitigation PDDs could potentially report a contribution to at least partially to the other goal. Some adaptation project developers were interested in mitigation for the prospect of carbon funding, whereas mitigation project developers integrated adaptation to achieve greater longterm sustainability or to attain CCB certification. International and national institutions can provide incentives for projects to harness synergies and avoid trade-offs between adaptation and mitigation.

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Branching out: Agroforestry as a climate change mitigation and adaptation tool for agriculture

Cited by 170 publications

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Traditional agriculture: a climate-smart approach for sustainable food production

Traditional agriculture: a climate-smart approach for sustainable food production

Potential of Windbreak Trees to Reduce Carbon Emissions by Agricultural Operations in the US

Addressing Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Together: A Global Assessment of Agriculture and Forestry Projects

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