Record Details

Agroforestry-Based Ecosystem Services: Reconciling Values of Humans and Nature in Sustainable Development

CGSpace

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title Agroforestry-Based Ecosystem Services: Reconciling Values of Humans and Nature in Sustainable Development
 
Creator van Noordwijk, M.
 
Subject agroforestry
ecosystem services
 
Description Agroforestry as active area of multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary research aims to bridge several artificial divides that have respectable historical roots but hinder progress toward sustainable development goals. These include: (1) The segregation of “forestry trees” and “agricultural crops”, ignoring the continuity in functional properties and functions; the farm-scale “Agroforestry-1” concept seeks to reconnect perennial and annual, woody and nonwoody plants across the forest–agriculture divide to markets for inputs and outputs. (2) The identification of agriculture with provisioning services and the assumed monopoly of forests on other ecosystem services (including hydrology, carbon storage, biodiversity conservation) in the landscape, challenged by the opportunity of “integrated” solutions at landscape scale as the “Agroforestry-2” concept explores. (3) The gaps among local knowledge of farmers/agroforesters as landscape managers, the contributions of social and ecological sciences, the path-dependency of forestry, environmental or agricultural institutions, and emerging policy responses to “issue attention cycles” in the public debate, as is the focus of the “Agroforestry-3” concept. Progress in understanding social–ecological–economic systems at the practitioners–science–policy interface requires that both instrumental and relational values of nature are appreciated, as they complement critical steps in progressing issue cycles at the three scales. A set of hypotheses can guide further research.
 
Date 2021-07-22
2021-10-15T03:19:19Z
2021-10-15T03:19:19Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier van Noordwijk, M., 2021. Agroforestry-Based ecosystem services: Reconciling values of humans and nature in sustainable development. Land, 10(7), 699. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10070699
2073-445X
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/115437
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/10/7/699/pdf
https://doi.org/10.3390/land10070699
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 699
 
Source Land