Climate-smart agroforestry systems and practices: A systematic review of what works, what doesn't work, and why

D Ntawuruhunga, EE Ngowi, HO Mangi… - Forest Policy and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The prevailing global environmental distress, particularly in rural areas, calls for the
adoption of integrated sustainable rural development strategies like climate-smart …

Mainstreaming smart agroforestry for social forestry implementation to support sustainable development goals in Indonesia: A review

D Octavia, S Suharti, Murniati, IWS Dharmawan… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The increasing need for forest resources and cultivated land requires a solution in forest
management to realize sustainable land use. Smart agroforestry (SAF) is a set of agriculture …

Shifts in regional water availability due to global tree restoration

AJ Hoek van Dijke, M Herold, K Mallick, I Benedict… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Tree restoration is an effective way to store atmospheric carbon and mitigate climate
change. However, large-scale tree-cover expansion has long been known to increase …

[HTML][HTML] Trees, forests and water: Cool insights for a hot world

D Ellison, CE Morris, B Locatelli, D Sheil… - Global environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
Forest-driven water and energy cycles are poorly integrated into regional, national,
continental and global decision-making on climate change adaptation, mitigation, land use …

Intermediate tree cover can maximize groundwater recharge in the seasonally dry tropics

U Ilstedt, A Bargués Tobella, HR Bazié, J Bayala… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Water scarcity contributes to the poverty of around one-third of the world's people. Despite
many benefits, tree planting in dry regions is often discouraged by concerns that trees …

[HTML][HTML] The deployment of intercrop** and agroforestry as adaptation to climate change

AJ Burgess, MEC Cano, B Parkes - Crop and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Food security is threatened by the combined pressures of increasing populations and
climate change. Agricultural land is vulnerable to overexploitation and environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of revegetation of the Loess Plateau of China on the regional growing season water balance

J Ge, AJ Pitman, W Guo, B Zan… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2020 - hess.copernicus.org
To resolve a series of ecological and environmental problems over the Loess Plateau, the
“Grain for Green Program”(GFGP) was initiated at the end of 1990s. Following the …

Reductions in water, soil and nutrient losses and pesticide pollution in agroforestry practices: a review of evidence and processes

X Zhu, W Liu, J Chen, LA Bruijnzeel, Z Mao, X Yang… - Plant and Soil, 2020 - Springer
Background and aims Agroforestry systems combining trees with crops or pastures have
been widely used to reduce water, soil, and nutrient losses and associated water pollution …

Water acquisition, sharing and redistribution by roots: applications to agroforestry systems

J Bayala, I Prieto - Plant and Soil, 2020 - Springer
Aims In the face of problems caused by 'intensive agriculture'dominated by large areas of
monocultures, mixed intercrop** mimicking natural ecosystems has been reported to …

Climate-smart agroforestry: Faidherbia albida trees buffer wheat against climatic extremes in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia

TS Sida, F Baudron, H Kim, KE Giller - Agricultural and forest meteorology, 2018 - Elsevier
Faidherbia albida parklands cover a large area of the Sudano-Sahelian zone of Africa, a
region that suffers from soil fertility decline, food insecurity and climate change. The …