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The Pilot Assessment of Global Ecosystems: Agroecosystems in 2000 [a precursor to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005)] used spatial analyses to graphically illuminate overlapping uses of land for agricultural production, biodiversity conservation, and multiple other ecosystem services at a global sca...
Agroforestry has an indispensable role in food and livelihood security in addition to its capacity to combat the detrimental effects of climate change. However, agroforestry has not been properly promoted and exploited due to lack of precise extent, geographical distribution, and carbon sequestration (C...
Current conventional agriculture is considered unsustainable and inadequate to address great societal challenges such as climate change, environmental poll
2016). In some parts of the shea belt where the caterpillar is not traditionally eaten as food, the caterpillar is considered a pest with insecticides sometimes used to combat it (Odebiyi et al. 2004). Yet even in such regions farmers are increasingly recognising the economic benefits of ...
(NAPA) for the agriculture sector; as an important strategy to combat desertification by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD); as being beneficial to biodiversity by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD); and as being able to enhance ecosystem services by the ...
Introduction In the last four decades, agroforestry has been promoted as an option to address poverty and food insecurity, as well as to enhance the adaptability of small-scale farmers to social-ecological hazards [1–5]. For the former, its potential relies on its contribution to the ...
To combat future problems [44], the coop would need to establish strategies and policies at the beginning. In spite of the aging problem, the agriculture cooperative of Shimogo would have certain aspects that can be adopted in developing countries such as Bangladesh. The Japanese cooperative, ...