Agroforestry

This book offers comprehensive insights into the management of agroforestry for livelihood security and sustainable development in the tropics, addressing ecological interactions, productivity, and the monetization of carbon credits, while also outlining a future roadmap and policy challenges. Agroforestry is a brilliant land use farming practice that covers 1.6 billion hectares (78 percent in the tropics and 22 percent in the temperate regions) to enhance plant diversification, productivity, and livelihood across generations, maintaining eco-restoration. It ensures socioeconomic upliftment and a standard livelihood for people along with many ecosystem services for sustainable development under resilient climates, which are today’s key topics popularized among policy makers, stakeholders, scientists, ecologists, and climate supporters in the tropical world. However, more than 75 percent of the world’s poor directly depend on natural resources for their livelihoods. Adopting climate resilient agroforestry not only maximizes productivity and farmers’ socioeconomic status but also mitigates climate change issues through carbon sequestrations for better carbon management in the tropics. This book addresses agroforestry management for livelihood security and sustainable development in the tropics. Readers will earn about ecological interactions and productivity in tropical agroforestry ensuring greater ecosystem services and livelihood resilience under changing climates, as well as building livelihood resilience through monetization of carbon credits in agroforestry in the tropics. Livelihood and sustainability-based policy in agroforestry, its challenges, and a future roadmap are also covered. This volume provides new insights related to updated research, development and extension activities for combating climate change through carbon sequestration to enhance intensify greater productivity, and livelihood and ecosystem services for ensuring the goals of sustainable development.

List of Contributors xvii Preface xxiii 1 Agroforestry: A Sustainable Approach 1 Abhishek Raj, Manoj Kumar Jhariya, Arnab Banerjee, Ramesh Kumar Jha and Krishan Pal Singh 2 Outlooks on Major Agroforestry Systems 21 Luciana R. Chappa, Emmanuely Z. Nungula, Yamikani H. Makwinja, Shivani Ranjan, Sumit Sow, Ashwaq M. Alnemari, Sagar Maitra, Mahmoud F. Seleiman, Riziki Mwadaluand Harun I. Gitari 3 Synergies Between Tree Crops and Ecosystems in Tropical Agroforestry 49 D. M. N. S. Dissanayaka, S. S. Udumann and Anjana J. Atapattu 4 Agroforestry System Modeling as a Tool for Sustainability Planning: Current Trends, Limitations, and Way Forward 89 Upasana Mahatoand Rakesh Kadaverugu 5 Revealing the Enigmatic Riches of Bamboo Shoots: An Exemplary Source of Nourishment 127 Aakriti Singh Sisodiya and Soumitra Tiwari 6 Sustainable Spatial Agroforestry in the Context of Forestry Globalization: Strategic Guidelines 155 Yevhen Mishenin, Inessa Yarova and Inna Koblianska 7 Introduced and Indigenous Arbuscular Mycorrhizae on Growth and Establishment of Eucalyptus terreticornis Seedlings in Lateritic Soil 199 Somdatta Ghosh and N. K. Verma 8 Ecosystem Services Through Agroforestry Systems and Its Sustainability 223 Emmanuely Z. Nungula, Luciana R. Chappa, Shivani Ranjan, Sumit Sow, Ashwaq M. Alnemari, Mahmoud F. Seleiman, Riziki Mwadalu, Sagar Maitra and Harun I. Gitari 9 Agroforestry for Soil Health 255 Nongmaithem Raju Singh, Ashish Singh, N. Peetambari Devi, Y. Bijen Kumar, Rumki H. Ch. Sangma, W. S. Philanim, M. Prabha Devi and Pempa Lamu Bhutia 10 Fostering Food and Nutritional Security Through Agroforestry Practices 285 T. D. Nuwarapaksha, S. S. Udumann and Anjana J. Atapattu 11 Agroforestry for Climate Security 319 Harun H. Gitari, Emmanuely Z. Nungula, Luciana R. Chappa, Muhammad Ali Raza, Shivani Ranjan, Sumit Sow, Ashwaq M. Alnemari, Mahmoud F. Seleiman, Riziki Mwadalu and Sagar Maitra 12 Carbon Storage and Dynamics in Different Agroforestry Systems 345 Iqram Ahmed Khan, Shujaul Mulk Khan, Sadia Jahangir, Shahab Ali and Gulnar Kairzhanovna Tulindinova 13 Traditional Agroecosystems of Northeast India and Their Role in Climate Change Mitigation 375 Subhashree Patra, Shilky, Purabi Saikia, Amit Kumar and M.L. Khan 14 Bridging Sustainability: Exploring Carbon Trading in Agroforestry for Climate Resilience and Economic Viability 401 Kamlesh Verma, Vaishali Sharma, Alisha Keprate, Satya Prakash Vishwakarma, D. R. Bhardwaj and Prashant Sharma 15 Economic Studies in Agroforestry for Livelihood Security 443 Alisha Keprate, Vaishali Sharma, Sonaly Bhatnagar, Ruchi Thakur, Ghazanfer Abbas, D. R. Bhardwaj and Prashant Sharma 16 Impact of Agroforestry Practices on Fauna in Malaysia: From Arthropod to Large Mammal 481 Nur Nadiah Md Yusof, Siti Khairiyah Mohd Hatta, Nurulhuda Zakaria, Nurfarah Ain Limin, Izzati Adilah Azmir, Muhammad Al Amin Amran, Mohammad Shahfiz Azman, Hamizah Md Rasid and Mohd Nazip Suratman About the Editors 525 Index 527