Running title: 23 Soil macrofauna in the 'Quesungual' agroforestry system 24 25 2 Abstract 26 Smallholder agroforestry systems often incorporate features that are associated with abundant, 27 diverse soil macrofauna populations. This study sampled soil macrofauna communities across 28 four major land uses present within agricultural landscapes where the Quesungual Slash-and-29 Mulch Agroforestr...

Climate change, land degradation, and desertification lead to the loss of carbon present in soil plants. The dioxide (CO2) concentration atmosphere has reached 412 ppm. This is a rise 47% since start industrial period, when was close 280 Therefore, sequestration from earth need hour. Many scientists have suggested agroforestry as potent instrument for climate change mitigation well fetch lucrat...

Within heterogeneous land-use systems such as agroforestry or mixed tree crop plantations, the different morphological and physiological characteristics of the plants, together with their species-speci®c management, lead to a mosaic of different living conditions for the litter fauna. This may, in turn, in ̄uence the processes of decomposition and nutrient cycling and, thus, the growth-condition...

Agroforestry is a science which has the potential to contribute to the improvement of rural livelihood. Due to capacity of its various forms, it offers multiple alternative and opportunities to the farmers to enhance farm production and income, while protecting the agricultural environment. The local inhabitants of Ladakh region, a Cold Arid Desert, have their traditional Agroforestry system wh...

The coffee agroforestry system provides an ideal platform for the study of spatial ecology. The uniform pattern of the coffee plants and shade trees allows for the study of pattern generation through intrinsic biological forces rather than extrinsic habitat patchiness. Detailed studies, focusing on a key mutualism between an ant (Azteca instabilis) and a scale insect (Coccus viridis), conducted...

Agroforestry on small-scale farms has potential to provide important ecological services, such as carbon sequestration and maintenance of biological diversity, while also providing on-farm products for domestic use and marketing. Payments for environmental services (PES) are an increasingly popular mechanism for encouraging production of ecological services on agricultural lands and may also co...

The views expressed and the conclusions reached in this publication are those of the author and not necessarily those of persons consulted. RIRDC shall not be responsible in any way whatsoever to any person who relies in whole or in part on the contents of this report. iii Foreword Large areas of Australia are dedicated to plantation forestry – both non-native and native tree species. The size ...

The objective of this paper is to empirically test the hypothesis that reducing uncertainty for farmers through investment in human capital increases the likelihood of participation in an agroforestry development program. A model based on Keynes’s notion of profit expectations and “weight” is developed in order to gain some insight into agroforestry adoption behavior. Data was collected near th...