Forest planning and traditional knowledge in collective woodlands of Spain: The dehesa system

Linares, Antônio Meira

doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2007.03.059

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“…Dhesa system of Spain is a traditional agroforestry system with animal components. In this system, area under forest canopy is cleared by grazing to use it as cropland (Linares 2007). Integration of animals into farming systems not only provide milk and meat but also recycle their feed into manure that enhances the carbon sequestration (Altieri 1999b).…”

Section: Agroforestrymentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Singh

2017

Energ. Ecol. Environ.

241

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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

confidence: 99%

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

Singh

2017

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“…Since the end of the 18th century, the German forest management type centered on timber production has become increasingly widespread in response to increasing demand for energy [43,44]. In Hungary, this management type was introduced very early even from a European perspective, especially on the estates owned by landlords and the church.…”

Section: Changing Woodland Usementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Not only was the German system pre-eminent in Hungary, but it also dominated forest management throughout Europe [5,43]. The German forestry school promoted production-based, single focus forestry as opposed to the multifunctional usage that characterized the preceding period [4,44]. As a consequence, traditional forest management gradually waned leading to the reduction of extensive animal husbandry and forest grazing.…”

Section: Changing Woodland Usementioning

confidence: 99%

The history and natural regeneration of a secondary oak-beech woodland on a former wood-pasture in Hungary

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Characteristic features of European woodland include both a reduction in natural forest areas and an increase in former agricultural areas occupied by secondary woodland. The management of these areas is challenging in terms of nature conservation, agricultural and forestry management and policy. The aim of our study was to reconstruct the history and to document the current tree stand structure for a secondary oak-beech woodland in Hungary. Towards the end of the 1800s, this area which was once almost completely occupied by a continuous forest, had been transformed into a wood-pasture. As a result of its gradual abandonment, the closed forest stand of the pasture increased from 10 to 52% between 1963 and 2005. The most characteristic feature of this woodland is the abundance of large trees. Globally, the number of large and ancient trees is rapidly diminishing. Therefore preserving and maintaining such areas, where large trees could live, is an essential management task.

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“…The features and functions of these forma tions are the result of specific climatic condi tions, from somewhat mild summer droughts, combined with grazing and related human activities over the centuries to exploit natural resources (Perevolotsky & Seligman 1998, Peco et al 2006, Linares 2007). What we are looking at today must therefore be considered a peculiar agro-forestry system (Joffre et al 1988), rather than the remains of a previously closed forest ecosystem.…”

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confidence: 99%

Shrub facilitation of Quercus ilex and Quercus pubescens regeneration in a wooded pasture in central Sardinia (Italy)

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Calamini³

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Forest planning and traditional knowledge in collective woodlands of Spain: The dehesa system

Cited by 31 publications

References 5 publications

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

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

The history and natural regeneration of a secondary oak-beech woodland on a former wood-pasture in Hungary

Shrub facilitation of Quercus ilex and Quercus pubescens regeneration in a wooded pasture in central Sardinia (Italy)

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