Agroforestry is a powerful practice for sustainable and regenerative intensification because it
promotes multifunctional landscapes that deliver ecological functions that contribute to …

Highlights•Agroforestry shows promise for co-delivery of adaptation to and mitigation of
climate change.•Socio-environmental benefits of agroforestry should be considered in …

Africa's need to double food production and feed the burgeoning human population, without
compromising its natural resource base, has raised the momentum for sustainable …

Climate change mitigation and food security are two of the main challenges of human
society. Agroforestry systems, defined as the presence of trees on external and internal …

Agroforestry is an agricultural diversification practice that purposefully grows trees together
with crops and/or animals. Nitrogen (N) plays a pivotal role in the sustainability and …

The 4‰ initiative launched by the French government at COP21 in Paris in December 2015
aspires to increase global soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks at a rate of 0.4% per year. We …

While there have been many valuable individual studies of the effects of agroforestry on
changes in net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, this information has not yet been brought …

Agroforestry systems comprise trees and crops, or trees and pastures within the same field.
Globally, they cover approximately 1 billion hectares of land and contribute to the livelihoods …

Global climate projections present a very grim picture for the future of agriculture in parts of
Africa and Asia. Projections indicate marked impact on rainfall patterns and the mean …

Population growth in the city of Lubumbashi in the southeastern Democratic Republic of the
Congo (DR Congo) is leading to increased energy needs, endangering the balance of the …