The method of farming widely recognized as agroforestry is known for its sustainable and dynamic nature where components like trees, crops along with the livestock, are deliberately integrated in a single land management unit within an agroecosystem. The characteristic feature that distinguishes agroforestry from others is the targeted, planned, and organized management of interactive roles among the components that influence the productivity of land. The fundamental reason for its continuous discourse within scientific community is due to its efficiency in improving the land productivity, safeguarding its components including the crops and livestock. Providing services like carbon capture, conserving the biodiversity, conservation of watershed, and augmenting climate change through resilience by the agroforestry system make it suitable to be called as environment and ecosystem friendly. Restoration of soil fertility within an agroforestry system ultimately restores the land for its further productive use and ensures yield stability. Strengthening the livelihood resilience by establishing a strong capital base from the economic benefits obtained by such practices of farming is another positive impact of the agroforestry model. Trees and shrubs of fast-growing nature like Leucaena, Gliricidia Populus, Melia, and Jatropha with high biomass output can also be utilized for the production of bioenergy and biofuels that encourages improvement in productivity from the degraded lands by developing bioenergy power plants. Thus, agroforestry holds potential for an efficient land-use strategy for crop diversification within the global agricultural system, providing a diverse range of products that ensures food and nutritional security, envisions resilience, and fosters the redundancy in the agricultural system.

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Resilience of Robust Agroforestry Ecosystems

  • Shivani Barman,
  • Gurpreet Singh,
  • Brishmrita Mahanta Das,
  • Surya Teja Varanasi,
  • Sukanya Pachani

摘要

The method of farming widely recognized as agroforestry is known for its sustainable and dynamic nature where components like trees, crops along with the livestock, are deliberately integrated in a single land management unit within an agroecosystem. The characteristic feature that distinguishes agroforestry from others is the targeted, planned, and organized management of interactive roles among the components that influence the productivity of land. The fundamental reason for its continuous discourse within scientific community is due to its efficiency in improving the land productivity, safeguarding its components including the crops and livestock. Providing services like carbon capture, conserving the biodiversity, conservation of watershed, and augmenting climate change through resilience by the agroforestry system make it suitable to be called as environment and ecosystem friendly. Restoration of soil fertility within an agroforestry system ultimately restores the land for its further productive use and ensures yield stability. Strengthening the livelihood resilience by establishing a strong capital base from the economic benefits obtained by such practices of farming is another positive impact of the agroforestry model. Trees and shrubs of fast-growing nature like Leucaena, Gliricidia Populus, Melia, and Jatropha with high biomass output can also be utilized for the production of bioenergy and biofuels that encourages improvement in productivity from the degraded lands by developing bioenergy power plants. Thus, agroforestry holds potential for an efficient land-use strategy for crop diversification within the global agricultural system, providing a diverse range of products that ensures food and nutritional security, envisions resilience, and fosters the redundancy in the agricultural system.