Agroforestry for Degraded Landscapes

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction

      • Jagdish Chander Dagar, Sharda Rani Gupta, Demel Teketay

      Pages 3-21

   3. Agroforestry for Rehabilitation of Degraded Landscapes: Achieving Livelihood and Environmental Security

      • Sharda Rani Gupta, Jagdish Chander Dagar, Demel Teketay

      Pages 23-68

3. Tropical Agroforestry: Arid and Semiarid Regions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69

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   2. Agroforestry to Enhance Livelihood Security in Africa: Research Trends and Emerging Challenges

      • Jagdish Chander Dagar, G. W. Sileshi, F. K. Akinnifesi

      Pages 71-134

   3. Potential of Agroforestry to Enhance Livelihood Security in Africa

      • Shem Kuyah, G. W. Sileshi, Eike Luedeling, F. K. Akinnifesi, Cory W. Whitney, Jules Bayala et al.

      Pages 135-167

   4. Agroforestry Systems for Arid Ecologies in India

      • K. Shiran, M. B. Noor Mohamed, A. Keerthika, K. Pareek, C. B. Pandey

      Pages 169-188

   5. Land Use Management by Smallholders’Households as a Promising Way for Synergies Between the Rio Conventions: Case Study in Semi-Arid Areas of Cameroon

      • V. A. Kemeuze, D. J. Sonwa, P. M. Mapongmetsem, L. Verchot, Evariste Fongnzossie, B. A. Nkongmeneck

      Pages 189-211

   6. Impacts of Climate Change on Ecosystem Services of Agroforestry Systems in the West African Sahel: A Review

      • Kapoury Sanogo, Djibril S. Dayamba, Grace B. Villamor, Jules Bayala

      Pages 213-224

   7. Agroforestry Systems for Improving Nutrient Recycling and Soil Fertility on Degraded Lands

      • G. W. Sileshi, P. L. Mafongoya, Arun Jyoti Nath

      Pages 225-253

   8. Potential of Gliricidia-Based Agroforestry Systems for Resource-Limited Agroecosystems

      • G. W. Sileshi, F. K. Akinnifesi, P. L. Mafongoya, E. Kuntashula, O. C. Ajayi

      Pages 255-282

   9. Socio-Economic and Policy Issues in Relation to the Adoption of Agroforestry in Africa

      • Cliff S. Dlamini

      Pages 283-304

4. Tropical Agroforestry: Humid and Subhumid Regions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 305-305

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   2. Agroforestry Options for Degraded Landscapes in Southeast Asia

      • Meine van Noordwijk, Andre Ekadinata, Beria Leimona, Delia Catacutan, Endri Martini, Hesti L. Tata et al.

      Pages 307-347

   3. Community-Based Peat Swamp Restoration Through Agroforestry in Indonesia

      • Yusuf Bahtimi Samsudin, Dyah Puspitaloka, Syed Ajijur Rahman, Ajith Chandran, Himlal Baral

      Pages 349-365

   4. Agroforestry to Sustain Island and Coastal Agriculture in the Scenario of Climate Change: Indian Perspective

      • Jagdish Chander Dagar, B. Gangaiah, Sharda Rani Gupta

      Pages 367-424

   5. Incentivizing Hill Farmers for Promoting Agroforestry as an Alternative to Shifting Cultivation in Northeast India

      • Arun Jyoti Nath, U. K. Sahoo, Krishna Giri, G. W. Sileshi, A. K. Das

      Pages 425-444

   6. The Contribution of Agroforestry to Restoration and Conservation: Biodiversity Islands in Degraded Landscapes

      • Florencia Montagnini

      Pages 445-479

   7. Halophytes for Utilizing and Restoring Coastal Saline Soils of India: Emphasis on Agroforestry Mode

      • G. Gururaja Rao, Jagdish Chander Dagar

      Pages 481-524

This book presents various aspects of agroforestry research and development, as well as the latest trends in degraded landscape management. Over the last four decades, agroforestry research (particularly on degraded landscapes) has evolved into an essential problem-solving science, e.g. in terms of sustaining agricultural productivity, improving soil health and biodiversity, enhancing ecosystem services, supporting carbon sequestration and mitigating climate change. This book examines temperate and tropical agroforestry systems around the world, focusing on traditional and modern practices and technologies used to rehabilitate degraded lands. It covers the latest research advances, trends and challenges in the utilization and reclamation of degraded lands, e.g. urban and peri-urban agroforestry, reclamation of degraded landscapes, tree-based multi-enterprise agriculture, domestication of high-value halophytes, afforestation of coastal areas, preserving mangroves and much more. Given its scope, the book offers a valuable asset for a broad range of stakeholders including farmers, scientists, researchers, educators, students, development/extension agents, environmentalists, policy/decision makers, and government and non-government organizations.

• Agroforestry
• Degraded landscapes
• Restoration of degraded landscapes
• Environmental services of agroforestry
• Agroforestry for degraded lands

• Natural Resource Management Division, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, India, ICAR-Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal, India

  Jagdish Chander Dagar

• Department of Botany, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India

  Sharda Rani Gupta

• Department of Range and Forest Resources, Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (BUAN), Gaborone, Botswana

  Demel Teketay

Jagdish Chander Dagar, Former Assistant Director General and Emeritus Scientist at ICAR, has long been actively involved in the areas of agroforestry, natural resources management, biosaline agriculture, rehabilitation of degraded lands, ethnobotany, plant ecology, environmental sciences, biodiversity, climate change and sustainable agriculture, as can be seen in his more than 300 research papers, published in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. He has been conferred with several awards and honours and is a Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences and several other professional societies. He has also been a consultant to the UN, CIMMYT, and Haryana Forest Department. Dr Dagar is also Chief Editor of the Journal Soil Salinity & Water Quality.

S. R. Gupta, former Professor of Botany, Dean of Life Sciences, and Emeritus Fellow of the UGC, is a nationally and internationally recognised ecologist who has taught at the Department of Botany and at the Institute of Environmental Studies at Kurukshetra University, India. She has made significant contributions to better understanding the biodiversity and ecosystem functions of grasslands, forest ecosystems, soil biodiversity, ecological rehabilitation of salt-affected soils, carbon sequestration in agroforestry systems, and the sustainability of conservation agricultural systems. The author of 98 research papers published in national and international journals, she is also a Fellow of the National Institute of Ecology and is affiliated with the Institute of Environmental Studies.

Demel Teketay Fanta received his MSc in Plant Taxonomy from Reading University (UK) and PhD in Forest Vegetation Ecology from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. He is currently serving as a Professor of Forest Sciences and founding Dean of the Faculty of Natural Resources at Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (BUAN). He has published over 250 scientific articles and technical reports, including more than 150 peer-reviewed articles in national and international scientific journals. He is a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), International Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry (KSLA), Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS), Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences (EAS), and a Member of the Botswana Academy of Science (BAS).

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