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Forestry and Agroforestry
With the global population projected to exceed about nine billion people by 2050, the agricultural output must expand by an estimated 60% to meet the...
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One Size Does not Fit all: Constraints and Opportunities for Small-Scale Forestry in British Columbia, Canada
Forestry in British Columbia, Canada, is in transition. Social and environmental concerns, such as the conservation of old growth forests,...
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How financially viable is smallholder forestry? A case study with a high-value tropical forestry species
This paper evaluates the financial performance and risk of high-value tropical forestry under the challenges faced by smallholders, using Vanuatu...
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Expertise, Identity, and Relationships in Private Forestry Practice
In the management of private forests, it is important for a forester to understand and prescribe action rooted in sound science and technique but...
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Soil Microbial Biomass, N Nutrition Index, and Yield of Maize Cultivated Under eucalyptus Shade in Integrated crop-livestock-forestry Systems
Integrated crop-livestock-forestry systems are promising alternatives to landscape impoverishment caused by monoculture systems. However, nutrient...
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The Influence of Harvesting Systems on Productivity, Costs, and Soil Compaction in Small-Scale Forestry
Optimizing productivity and costs and minimizing negative impacts on soil properties is a pre-requisite in forest harvesting. We conducted research...
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Increasing farm size is an effective way to decrease the carbon footprint in dairy cattle production
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of the farm size on the carbon footprint of dairy cattle farms in Isparta province in...
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Economic Contributions of Forestry Service Providers in Mississippi, USA
We used three comprehensive datasets to assess economic activities at as granular a level as possible for Support Activities for Forestry industry in...
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Climate Change Mitigation Through Agro-Forestry Improves Natural Resource and Livelihood Security
It is commonly known that human activity has a stronger impact on climate change than ever before. Deforestation and forest degradation lead to an...
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NIR-hyperspectral camera analyses for differencing agroforestry and forestry poplar woods
Wood characteristics of trees grown in agroforestry systems are still little studied, while their growth conditions are different from conventional...
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C stocks in abandoned short rotation forestry (SRF) plantations in Central Italy
At the end of the last century, European Union (EU) energy policies encouraged the use of dedicated short rotation forestry (SRF) plantations in...
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On-farm greenhouse gas emissions and soil carbon stocks of a soybean‒maize system
The agriculture sector is responsible for approximately one-quarter of Brazilian greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In the present study, we aimed to...
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Continuous Cover Forestry Practitioners in a Clear-cutting-oriented System: Assessing the Potential to Foster the Practice
Recently, changes in society have brought about the rediscovery of continuous cover forestry (CCF) as a forest management approach that helps to...
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Forestry a Way Forward for Disaster Risk Reduction in Agriculture
Emergency Event Database (EM-DAT) reported 432 devastating events during 2021, related to natural hazards, which is much higher than the last year’s...
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Drivers and constraints of on-farm diversity. A review
Enhancing and maintaining on-farm diversity is a potential strategy to improve farming systems’ sustainability and resilience. However,...
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Agroforestry-based community forestry as a large-scale strategy to reforest agricultural encroachment areas in Myanmar: ambition vs. local reality
Key messageThe Forest Department strongly influences agroforestry design, tree species selection, and the participation and motivation of farmers to...
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Impact of cattle density on the structure and natural regeneration of a turkey oak stand on an agrosilvopastoral farm in central Italy
On an agrosilvopastoral farm in central Italy where Maremmana cattle graze in Turkey oak forests, we evaluated the impact of different livestock...
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An Introduction to Climate-Smart Forestry in Mountain Regions
The goal to limit the increase in global temperature below 2 °C requires reaching a balance between anthropogenic emissions and reductions (sinks) in...
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Assessing the energy trap of industrial agriculture in North America and Europe: 82 balances from 1830 to 2012
Early energy analyses of agriculture revealed that behind higher labor and land productivity of industrial farming, there was a decrease in energy...
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Is the Gender Agenda of Nepal’s Community Forestry at Risk due to Commercial Transitions?
For the last 40 years, community forestry in Nepal is widely recognized for its participatory forest co-management model with an emphatic focus on...