Transforming agroforestry in contested landscapes: A win-win solution to trade-offs in ecosystem services in Nepal
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| Article Title | Transforming agroforestry in contested landscapes: A win-win solution to trade-offs in ecosystem services in Nepal |
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| ERA Journal ID | 3551 |
| Article Category | Article |
| Authors | Aryal, Kishor, Maraseni, Tek and Apan, Armando |
| Journal Title | Science of the Total Environment |
| Journal Citation | 857 (Part 1) |
| Article Number | 159301 |
| Number of Pages | 13 |
| Year | 2023 |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Place of Publication | Netherlands |
| ISSN | 0048-9697 |
| 1879-1026 | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159301 |
| Web Address (URL) | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969722064002 |
| Abstract | Trade-offs in ecosystem services (ES) is increasingly becoming a pressing issue in sustainability science, to deal with supply constraints of landscape and divergence in demand from local and global stakeholders. Agroforestry is a well acknowledged and established management practice to minimize the trade-offs, and to sustainably manage the contested landscapes while satisfying the growing demands of both local and global ecosystem beneficiaries. However, various facets of agroforestry, its management modality, institutional arrangements, and implementation outcomes are inadequately understood. This paper aims to scrutinize major agroforestry practices through the methods of systematic review of literature, government policies, and project reports. Taking a case of Nepal, this paper presents agroforestry transition from forest-based agroforestry (i.e., shifting cultivation) to farm-based integrated approach to agroforestry in Nepal. This paper reveals that integrated agro-forestry approach is crucial in creating win-win scenarios among various stakeholders by minimizing trade-offs and maximizing synergies among ES, especially food, fibre, and other ES (i.e., biodiversity, soil functioning, water, and climate regulation). Analysing socio-economic, ecological, and institutional factors that are affecting agroforestry for the last fifty years, we further suggest an integrated model of agroforestry which is replicable in other countries with similar socio-economic status, practicing subsistence farming system. The findings of the paper are crucial in awakening scholars, policy makers and landscape managers for up-scaling and out-scaling of integrated approach to agroforestry for ecosystem management and attainment of various sustainable development goals such as, no poverty (#1), zero hunger (#2), climate action (#13), and life on land (#15). |
| Keywords | Agroforestry; Ecosystem services; Integrated approach; Sustainable development goals; Trade-offs |
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| Is part of | Socio-ecological trade-offs in ecosystem services in the Himalayas |
| Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
| ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 300701. Agroforestry |
| 410204. Ecosystem services (incl. pollination) | |
| Public Notes | This article is part of a UniSQ Thesis by publication. See Related Output. |
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| PubMed ID | 36216070 |
| Funder | University of Southern Queensland |
| Byline Affiliations | University of Southern Queensland |
| Ministry of Industry, Tourism, Forests and Environment, Nepal | |
| University of Southern Queensland | |
| Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/w74vy/transforming-agroforestry-in-contested-landscapes-a-win-win-solution-to-trade-offs-in-ecosystem-services-in-nepal
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