The Socioeconomic Context of Carbon Sequestration in Agroforestry: A Case Study from Homegardens of Kerala, India

Saha, Subhrajit; Stein, Taylor V.; Nair, P. K. R.; Andreu, Michael G.

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-1630-8_16

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“…The results in this study are in line with Saha et al (2011) which indicate that farmers' decision-making processes were most influenced by factors such as ancestors and education, followed by peers, financial condition, and economic importance of the agroforestry land holding. The attitudes of nature conservation managers, who are actually the farmers of the protected areas, to implementing agroforestry management based on traditional ecological knowledge was determined by ancestors and childhood memories, mainly by their own experiences, and not their studies (Varga et al 2016).…”

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“…The relationship between socio-psychological factors (e.g. cultural, demographic, economic, and social variables, including ancestors, peers and education) and how people make decisions in practicing agroforestry are inseparable, and must be considered if policy makers, extension agents, and agricultural educators hope to influence and improve landowners' agroforestry management (Saha et al 2011).…”

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Farmers’ reasoning behind the uptake of agroforestry practices: evidence from multiple case-studies across Europe

Rois-Díaz

Lovrić

et al. 2017

Agroforest Syst

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Potential benefits and costs of agroforestry practices have been analysed by experts, but few studies have captured farmers' perspectives on why agroforestry might be adopted on a European scale. This study provides answers to this question, through an analysis of 183 farmer interviews in 14 case study systems in eight European countries. The study systems included high natural and cultural value agroforestry systems, silvoarable systems, high value tree systems, and silvopasture systems, as well as systems where no agroforestry practices were occurring. A mixed method approach combining quantitative and qualitative approaches was taken throughout the interviews. Narrative thematic data analysis was performed. Data collection proceeded until no new themes emerged. Within a given case study, i.e. the different systems in different European regions, this sampling was performed both for farmers who practice agroforestry and farmers who did not. Results point to a great diversity of agroforestry practices, although many of the farmers are not aware of the term or concept of agroforestry, despite implementing the practice in their own farms. While only a few farmers mentioned eligibility for direct payments in the CAP as the main reason to remove trees from their land, to avoid the reduction of the funded area, the tradition in the family or the region, learning from others, and increasing the diversification of products play the most important role in adopting or not agroforestry systems.

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Farmers’ reasoning behind the uptake of agroforestry practices: evidence from multiple case-studies across Europe

Rois-Díaz

Lovrić

et al. 2017

Agroforest Syst

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“…Examples include agroecology (Altieri, 1995), peasant farming (van der Ploeg, 2013), permaculture (Roux-Rosier et al, 2018), urban gardening (Jehlička et al, 2019), urban agriculture (McClintock, 2010), urban foraging (R. J. McLain et al, 2014;Shackleton et al, 2017), edible green infrastructure (Russo et al, 2017), agroforestry (Saha et al, 2011), edible commons (Sardeshpande et al, 2020), edible cities and edible landscapes (Artmann et al, 2020;R. McLain et al, 2012).…”

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Defining edible landscapes: a multilingual systematic review

Rupprecht¹,

Gärtner²,

Cui³

et al. 2023

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The concept of edible landscapes seeks to combine a participatory approach to food production with wider concerns about well-designed, sustainable human-landscape relationships. Despite its decade-long history and seeming potential for holistically addressing multiple intertwined socio-ecological crises, the concept has received much less attention than related ideas such as green infrastructure or nature-based solutions. We conducted a systematic, multilingual review of 79 studies to understand how edible landscapes are defined, what their characteristics are, what trends exist in the literature, and how edible landscapes can be situated in the broader context of food production. Findings suggest that no clear definition of the term ‘edible landscape’ currently exists, although the implicit consensus is that edible landscapes feature food production as well as an aesthetic contribution. The literature holds high expectations but provides only limited empirical evidence for benefits. Edible landscape frames a unique conceptual space, which we visualize by placing it in relation with related concepts. We then propose two concise, genus-differentia definitions as a basis for academic debate, one of which expands the concept to include multispecies agency in designing landscapes. We conclude with a call for more empirical as well as theory-focused research to facilitate edible landscapes’ contributions to more sustainable human-nature relationships.

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NTFP and Homegarden vis-à-vis Land Degradation Neutrality: Sustainable Livelihood and Development

Gurung

Tamang

Shukla

et al. 2022

Land Degradation Neutrality: Achieving SDG 15 by Forest Management

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The Socioeconomic Context of Carbon Sequestration in Agroforestry: A Case Study from Homegardens of Kerala, India

Cited by 6 publications

References 30 publications

Farmers’ reasoning behind the uptake of agroforestry practices: evidence from multiple case-studies across Europe

Farmers’ reasoning behind the uptake of agroforestry practices: evidence from multiple case-studies across Europe

Defining edible landscapes: a multilingual systematic review

NTFP and Homegarden vis-à-vis Land Degradation Neutrality: Sustainable Livelihood and Development

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