Agroforestry Systems - Call for Papers: Agroforestry systems in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Photo 1.  Dispersed trees with maize, Honduras
Photo 2. Live fences in pasturelands, Honduras}.

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is a megadiverse region in terms of landscapes, soils, climates, cultures and production systems. This region contains approximately 57% of the world's primary forests, storing approximately 104 Pg of carbon and hosting between 40 and 50% of the world's biodiversity and a third of all plant species. It is also rich in ecosystems, ranging from humid and dry broadleaved forests, temperate forests, tropical and subtropical coniferous forests, pastures, savannas and shrublands.

LAC region is not exempted from the impacts of climate change, with extreme weather conditions affecting millions of people, mainly due to heatwaves, droughts, hurricanes, forest fires, regional sea level rise and flooding and crop yield decrease. There are other threats, such as deforestation, forest and land degradation, low productivity with severe consequences in the entire subcontinent. Therefore, well-designed and well-managed agroforestry systems can be a viable land-use option to counteract these societal, productive and environmental problems. Agroforestry systems in the region cover around 200-500 million hectares, mainly in silvopastoral systems and tree-shaded crops.

This special issue seeks to concentrate on the most relevant outcomes of agroforestry systems in LAC. It is intended to be a transdisciplinary issue, where articles on the region's biophysical, economic, social, and cultural aspects of agroforestry will converge. We welcome unpublished and novel papers that constitute an advance in agroforestry science in the region.

Please note that all submitted manuscripts will follow peer-review criteria per standard journal submissions. The deadline for submissions is June 2023 and for consideration for this Special Issue the corresponding author should select the Special Issue during submission.

To submit your manuscript to this Special Issue please follow the link here. (this opens in a new tab)

In the ‘Details’ tab, authors must and select 'SI: Agroforestry systems in Latin America' from the drop-down menu under ‘Collection’.

For any enquiries about the suitability of papers, please contact the Guest Editors:
Dr Arlene López-Sampson - CATIE, Costa Rica lopeza@catie.ac.cr (this opens in a new tab)

Dr Hernán J. Andrade – Universidad del Tolima, Colombia hjandrade@ut.edu.co (this opens in a new tab)