Balancing economic and ecological needs - The Future of Agri-Environment Schemes

Recently published in the Journal of applied ecology is a paper on Multifunctional shade-tree management in tropical agroforestry landscapes … the Future of Agri-Environment Schemes. The work looks at short and long term ecological benefits.

Climate extremes and environmental changes require a greater capacity from the environment to respond to change. Consequently, it could be beneficial to build ecological resilience into land-use systems as opposed to more traditional methods which might have included an intensification of agricultural and potential reduction in the ecological resilience of land-use systems.

To create such changes, a participatory approach can help to encourage knowledge transfer between farmers, agronomists and ecologists. This research, in part, looks at a shade management regime that balances economic and ecological needs and provides a 'diversified food-and-cash crop' livelihood strategy.

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An affiliated author of the paper is WANGER Thomas C a post graduate from the Environment Institute, University of Adelaide in the Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity.

Read more about this research here.
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