Introduction. The lack of economic information is a barrier to the promotion of agroforestry systems (AFS). The forestry component could represent an important contribution to economy, an increase in biodiversity and, a high carbon footprint in coffee AFS, which are promoted throughout more than 93 ...

Bangladesh government has recently pledged to restore 0.75 million ha of degraded forestland as part of its commitment to the Bonn Challenge, however little is known about the potential challenges and opportunities involved in achieving that goal. Using secondary literature complemented by expert...

The main goal of this review was to provide an assessment of the potential of fast-growing tree species for the suitable transformation of agroforestry areas for biomass production in the Baltic Sea region. Our interest was to highlight the research on the management process of agroforestry zones...

Cocoa-based agroforests play an important role in farmer livelihood and the global environment; however, despite these facts, their low yields and tree aging put at risk their fate. This project investigated the carbon storage potential, productivity, and economics of different agroforestry...

The lives of the urban poor in the majority world are unfree: blighted by social injustice in its manifold forms, from violence and ill-health to absent economic opportunities. We explore the pursuit of freedom through migration away from the metropole to ramais (colonisation tracks) at the...

A modeling work was developed aiming to propose an AFS arrangement destined to the ecological restoration of Permanent Preservation Areas (APPs) in transition environments between the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest biomes, with soils of low natural fertility, well drained and that offer an economic...

Most of the rural population of developing countries depends on forest ecosystems; consequently, there is a myriad of trade-offs that jeopardize the ability of the forest to produce goods and services. To maintain the current forest cover and offer opportunities to improve rural livelihoods, more...

These proceedings contain papers on topics about forest ecology and conservation, forest management, biodiversity and genetic conservation, forest policy and economics, forest remote sensing and gis / precision forestry, forest protection, forest soil and silviculture, social forestry, nature...

Implementing Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) policy has contributed to conserving and protecting the forests to remain relevant for future generations. This study determines stakeholders' viewpoint on the relationship between the implementation of SFM and food security in Sabah. The study was...

Several studies exist today on the adoption of innovations (certification) in the cocoa value chain in Africa's largest cocoa-producing countries (Ivoiry Coast and Ghana). Despite the importance of the cocoa sector in Cameroon's economy and as a source of income to the majority of its farmers,...