How Have Environmental Concepts Reshaped the Agroforestry Concept?

Abstract

Environmental sciences and concepts have evolved a great deal in the last three decades. This study aims to account for the way environmental concepts have changed and to describe the conse- quences for the concept of agroforestry. The study is based on a bibliometric ana- lysis carried out on the Web of Science, and summarizes the literature collected on the subject. Examples are given to support the analysis: agroforestry-based coffee-growing in the Western Ghats in India, cocoa in Ivory Coast and jungle rubber in Indonesia. Agroforestry evol- ved considerably with the emergence of the biodiversity and ecosystem concepts, and conservation science now also covers ecosystems that have been modi- fied by humans. The development of agroforestry can be compared with that of agroecology: a study on the Web of Science shows a similar pattern in the last two decades. Although the recognition of agroecology as a science has introduced new ways of managing agroforestry sys- tems, the way agroforestry has deve- loped and its broad scope of application may have disconnected it somewhat from reality on the ground and from the far- mers who actually practice it. Precautions are therefore needed in designing and managing these systems: farmers’ expec- tations, in contexts that are determined at once by social, economic and political factors, must not be ignored, and agrofo- restry systems should not be exclusively geared to productivity. Agroforestry can- not evolve as an environmental concept if it is voided of its most fundamental goal, which is to bring sustainable improve- ments to farming livelihoods.

Fungos Fitopatogênicos de Solo em Sistemas Agroflorestais: revisão de literatura

“…O Sistema de produção agroflorestal é uma prática antiga, desde tempos imemoriais e bem característica de uso como meio de produção e sobrevivência em comunidades tradicionais em várias partes do mundo, especialmente nos trópicos, sendo muitas vezes constituídos de forma casual, sem um arranjo produtivo ou delineamento previamente estabelecido (NAIR, 1993;MAZUCHOWSKI, 1994;AMADOR, 2003;BARISAUX, 2017).…”

Análise Da Macrofauna Edáfica Em Pomar Caseiro

“…São condutores à estabilidade e podem mitigar os impactos causados pelo manejo insustentável de produção agrícola contemporânea (DE FREITAS et al, 2018). Isso ocorre em função de que promovem a cobertura do solo, aumentam a ciclagem de nutrientes e diminuem a depleção de minerais, incrementando a produtividade do sistema agropecuário (BARISAUX, 2017;CANUTO, 2017). Um tipo estratégico de SAF são os quintais agroflorestais que, localizados próximo às residências possuem multipropósitos e representam uma resistência ao modelo preponderante, garantindo segurança nutricional e alimentar bem como, promoção de geração de renda e sustentabilidade no uso da terra (MBOW et al, 2014).…”

A Scientometric Analysis of Worldwide Intercropping Research Based on Web of Science Database between 1992 and 2020

“…There are many studies reviewing various aspects of intercropping, including yield stability [24][25][26], water and nutrient utilization [27][28][29][30][31], biodiversity [32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39], allelopathy [17,[40][41][42][43][44], agroforestry [29,[45][46][47][48][49][50][51], or species-dependent intercropping such as cereallegume or maize-based intercropping [7,31,52,53]. However, no study has investigated the overall research tends and features of intercropping.…”

“…However, no study has investigated the overall research tends and features of intercropping. Previous studies [45][46][47][48]54,55] have shown that scientometrics is a powerful tool for quantitative and statistical demonstration of research trends and features of a certain topic. The objective of this study is to quantitatively analyze the growth and evolution of intercropping research based on the scientometric method based on the Web of Science database.…”