Integrating landscapes : agroforestry for biodiversity conservation and food sovereignty /: agroforestry for biodiversity conservation and food sovereignty. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Florencia Montagnini, editor.
• Editors: Montagnini, Florencia, 1950-
• Contents: Preface; Florencia Montagnini -- Section 1. Agroforestry challenges and alternatives -- 1. Introduction: Challenges for agroforestry in the new millennium; Florencia Montagnini -- 2. The contribution of agroforestry to Sustainable Development Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture; Florencia Montagnini, Ruth Metzel -- 3. Tropical dry forests in multi-functional landscapes: Agroforestry systems for conservation and livelihoods; Irene Montes Londoño -- 4. Agroforestry for the Northeastern United States: Research, practice, and possibilities; Eli Roberts -- 5. Resilience management at landscape level: an approach to tackle social-ecological vulnerability of agroforestry systems; Dardo R. López et al -- Section 2. From subsistence to market oriented systems -- 6. Energy analysis of coffee production systems: Implications for environmental and economic sustainability; Carl F. Jordan -- 7. Indigenous successional agroforestry: Integrating the old and new to address food insecurity and deforestation; Asha Bertsch -- 8. Mimicking nature: A review of successional agroforestry systems as an analogue to natural regeneration of secondary forest stands; Katherine Young -- 9. Small-scale Açaí in the global market: Adding value to ensure sustained income for forest farmers in the Amazon Estuary; Leonora Pepper, Lívia De Freitas Navegantes Alves -- 10. Ecological indigenous (EIK) and scientific (ESK) knowledge integration as a tool for sustainable development in indigenous communities. Experience in Misiones, Argentina; Patricia Rocha et al -- 11. Organic yerba mate, Ilex paraguariensis, in association with native species: a sustainable production alternative; Beatriz Eibl et al -- 12. Adapting indigenous agroforestry systems for integrative landscape management and sustainable supply chain development in Napo, Ecuador; Christopher Jarrett et al -- 13. Fuel Alternatives for Developing Countries; Kjell E. Berg -- 14. Specialty crops in temperate agroforestry systems: sustainable management, marketing and promotion for the Midwest region of the U.S.A.; Gregory Ormsby Mori et al -- Section 3. Environmental services in multifunctional landscapes -- 15. Trees on farms for livelihoods, carbon storage and conservation of biodiversity: evidence from Nicaragua on this "invisible" resource; Eduardo Somarriba et al -- 16. Intensive silvopastoral systems: economics and contribution to climate change mitigation and public policies; Julián D. Chará et al -- 17. Enhancing biodiversity in neotropical silvopastoral systems: use of indigenous trees and palms; Zoraida Calle D. et al -- 18. Perennial staple crops and agroforestry for climate change mitigation; Eric Toensmeier -- 19. Carbon sequestration in temperate silvopastoral systems, Argentina; Pablo L. Peri et al -- 20. Conclusions: Lessons learned and pending challenges; Florencia Montagnini -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xix, 501 pages)
• Subjects: 634.9/9; Life sciences; Agroforestry -- Environmental aspects; Biodiversity conservation; Food sovereignty; Landscape ecology; Forests and forestry -- Environmental aspects; GARDENING -- Fruit; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- General; Agroforestry -- Environmental aspects; Biodiversity conservation; Food sovereignty; Forests and forestry -- Environmental aspects; Landscape ecology; Life Sciences; Agriculture; Forestry; Biodiversity; Ecosystems; Landscape Ecology; Technology & Engineering -- Agriculture -- Forestry; Science -- Life Sciences -- Ecology; Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniques; Biodiversity; Ecological science, the Biosphere; Plant ecology; Agriculture; Forests and forestry; Biodiversity; Endangered ecosystems; Agricultural science; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319693712; 3319693719
• Related ISBNs: 9783319693705; 3319693700
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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