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Advances in temperate agroforestry

Code: 9781801467193
Edited by: Professor Maria Rosa Mosquera-Losada, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Dr Ladislau Martin, Embrapa, Brazil; Professor Anastasia Pantera, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece; and Dr Allison Chatrchyan, Cornell University USA

With growing concern about the environmental impact of agriculture and its consequent contribution to climate change, there is an increasing interest in the implementation of agroecological approaches to achieve a more sustainable agriculture. Agroforestry is one area of research which has gained significant momentum in recent years.

Advances in temperate agroforestry reviews key recent advances in measuring and valuing how agroforestry systems promote biodiversity and deliver ecosystem services such as soil carbon sequestration. The book also considers the development of different silvopastoral and silvoarable practices, including integrating trees and livestock in timber forests, orchard and pasture systems, as well as alley cropping and intercropping.

Key Features

  • Provides a comprehensive overview of the ways agroforestry can support key ecosystem services
  • Reviews the range of silvopastoral and silvoarable systems and their application in agriculture to optimise crop and livestock production
  • Considers the benefits of temperate agroforestry in mitigating/adapting to climate change
£150.00
Table of Contents

Part 1 Measuring and valuing agroforestry ecosystem services

  • 1.Assessing the benefits of temperate agroforestry in promoting soil health: Lukas Beule, Julius Kühn-Institut, Germany;
  • 2.Assessing the benefits of temperate agroforestry in enhancing carbon sequestration: Maren Oelbermann, University of Waterloo, Canada;
  • 3.Ecosystem accounting to value ecosystem services from agroforestry: Anthony O'Grady, CSIRO, Australia;

Part 2 Advances in silvopastoral systems

  • 4.Types of silvopastoral system: an overview: Jim McAdam, formerly AFI/Queen's University Belfast, UK;
  • 5.Types of silvopastoral system: forests/timber plantations with pasture grazing for livestock: Marina Castro, IPB-ESAB, Portugal;
  • 6.Types of silvopastoral system: orchards/vineyards with grazing for livestock: Adolfo Rosati, CREA, Italy;
  • 7.Types of silvopastoral system: adding trees to pasture/rangelands: Marcelo Javier Beltrán, National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA), Argentina;
  • 8.The design and role of tree planting/shelterbelts/windbreaks in promoting biodiversity and other environmental as well as agricultural benefits in agricultural landscapes: Sara Burbi, Coventry University, UK;

Part 3 Advances in silvoarable and other systems

  • 9.Types of silvoarable system: developing shelterbelts/riparian buffers to deliver improved crop production and other ecosystem services: Oskar Englund, Mid Sweden University, Sweden;
  • 10.Types of silvoarable system: developing alley cropping: Mario Santos, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), Portugal;
  • 11.Development in forest farming: Margaret Bloomquist, North Carolina State University, USA;
  • 12.Developing urban agroforestry: Steven Newman, BioDiversity International/University of Leeds, UK;

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