Agroforestry (AF) has become an important strategy in reconciling the contradictory
requirements of environmental protection and economic development in ecologically fragile …

With the global population expected to reach over 9 billion by 2050, there is a continuous
need to increase food production and buffer stocks. In this scenario, countries around the …

Homegarden, a type of agroforestry system, is one of the earliest thriving traditional food
systems reported. Studying the contribution of homegardens in the context of Sustainable …

Removing atmospheric carbon (C) and storing it in the terrestrial biosphere is one of the
options, which have been proposed to compensate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions …

Home gardens are an essential component of the local food system and family farming
worldwide. In Indonesia, a home food gardening program was initiated in the early 2010s to …

Sustainability of environment and food production is among the greatest challenges of the
twenty-first century. Green revolution, however, achieved the targets of high food …

Tropical homegardens, one of the oldest forms of managed land-use systems, are
considered to be an epitome of sustainability. Although these multispecies production …

This book presents the results of an ICRAF review of the potential of agroforestry for soil
conservation, treated in its wider sense to include both control of erosion and maintenance …

It is almost certainly the case that many populations have always existed as
metapopulations, leading to the conclusion that local extinctions are common and normally …

Medicinal plants are an ecosystem service directly implicated in human well-being. In many
rural communities, they constitute a main treatment for disease or a source of disease …