Early tree growth, crop yields and estimated returns for an agroforestry trial in Goldsboro, North Carolina

Cubbage, Frederick W.; Glenn, Viola; Mueller, J. P.; Robison, Daniel J.; Myers, R.M.; Luginbuhl, Jean-Marie; Myers, Ron

doi:10.1007/s10457-012-9481-0

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“…By including aboveground C stored in wood, the agroforestry system was greater in C storage than either the open pasture or wooded plantation. A replicated agroforestry design initiated in 2007 in North Carolina will soon provide additional answers to the central question of how trees can alter ecosystem services within agricultural landscapes (Cubbage et al, 2012).…”

Section: Conservation Tillage and Agroforestrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Farming strategies to fuel bioenergy demands and facilitate essential soil services

Franzluebbers

2015

Geoderma

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Section: Conservation Tillage and Agroforestrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Farming strategies to fuel bioenergy demands and facilitate essential soil services

Franzluebbers

2015

Geoderma

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“…(ii) Silvopastoral Systems -This is an agroforestry system wherever vary c rops and/or animals and trees are combined for higher production of grasses and fodder. It plays a vital role in mitigating risks related to climate variability and unsteady costs by providing short-term (forage and/or livestock) and long-run (timber) financial gain sources (Cubbage et al, 2012;Schoeneberger et al, 2012). (iii) Agrosilvopastoral Systems -This is an agroforestry application during which trees, livestock and crops are combined, maintains and will increase nutrients levels and so enhances soil structure (Ndlovu and Mugabe, 2002).…”

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Opportunities and Challenges of Scaling up Agroforestry Practices in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review

Wato¹,

Amare²

2020

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Agroforestry is land-use systems and technologies where woody perennials are deliberately used on equivalent land management units as crops and/or animals. Its systems combine tree growing with the assembly of different crops or animals. Hence, developing positive ecological and economic interactions between components, agroforestry systems aim to produce a variety of environmental, economic and social advantages to farming communities. It plays a major role in soil conservation and global climate change mitigation particularly due to its tree component. Trees control soil degradation through their roots and accumulate greenhouse emission (GHG) in their biomass. What is more, it conjointly helps in global climate change adaptation. It’s a long-time undeniable fact that despite our gift effort at global climate change mitigation (GHG reduction), there is an additional pressing ought to address the impact of global climate change (adaptation). Peoples ought to be acutely aware regarding the scope and advantages of agroforestry and that they ought to participate in the implementation and development of agroforestry within the country. Thus, this paper reviews different analysis findings on the opportunities and challenges for scaling up agroforestry practices. Therefore, the agroforestry system is economically and ecologically sound practices with an improvement of overall farm productivity, soil enrichment through litterfall, maintaining environmental services like international global climate change mitigation (carbon sequestration), phytoremediation, watershed protection and biodiversity conservation.

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“…Further evidence from forest ecosystems suggests that tree diversity can increase drought resilience (Pretzsch, Sch€ utze, & Uhl, 2013) and nitrogen retention (Lang et al, 2014;Schwarz et al, 2014). Insights from a wide range of woody systems illustrate that diversity can enhance resilience to ecological disturbance, tighten biogeochemical cycling, stabilize productivity over time, and diversify income to hedge financial risk (Cubbage et al, 2012;Nadrowski, Wirth, & Scherer-Lorenzen, 2010;Scherer-Lorenzen, K€ orner, & Schulze, 2005).…”

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Frontiers in alley cropping: Transformative solutions for temperate agriculture

Wolz

Lovell

Branham

et al. 2017

Global Change Biology

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Annual row crops dominate agriculture around the world and have considerable negative environmental impacts, including significant greenhouse gas emissions. Transformative land-use solutions are necessary to mitigate climate change and restore critical ecosystem services. Alley cropping (AC)-the integration of trees with crops-is an agroforestry practice that has been studied as a transformative, multifunctional land-use solution. In the temperate zone, AC has strong potential for climate change mitigation through direct emissions reductions and increases in land-use efficiency via overyielding compared to trees and crops grown separately. In addition, AC provides climate change adaptation potential and ecological benefits by buffering alley crops to weather extremes, diversifying income to hedge financial risk, increasing biodiversity, reducing soil erosion, and improving nutrient- and water-use efficiency. The scope of temperate AC research and application has been largely limited to simple systems that combine one timber tree species with an annual grain. We propose two frontiers in temperate AC that expand this scope and could transform its climate-related benefits: (i) diversification via woody polyculture and (ii) expanded use of tree crops for food and fodder. While AC is ready now for implementation on marginal lands, we discuss key considerations that could enhance the scalability of the two proposed frontiers and catalyze widespread adoption.

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Early tree growth, crop yields and estimated returns for an agroforestry trial in Goldsboro, North Carolina

Cited by 28 publications

References 10 publications

Farming strategies to fuel bioenergy demands and facilitate essential soil services

Farming strategies to fuel bioenergy demands and facilitate essential soil services

Opportunities and Challenges of Scaling up Agroforestry Practices in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review

Frontiers in alley cropping: Transformative solutions for temperate agriculture

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