National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Global climate change caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases are recognized as a serious environmental issue of the twenty-first century. Climate change leads to land degradation leads to adverse effects on the productivity of the crops thus ultimately affecting the food and livelihood security of the people. Although, agroforestry, the purposeful growing of trees and crops in interacting combinations, has been practised in the world since time immemorial as a traditional land-use system. It is a shining approach which merges century’s old knowledge with modern science in a system and the concept of thinking small scale farmer’s to achieve potentially big and transformative outcomes. In recent times agroforestry practices are receiving huge attention as a sustainable land-management option because of its ecological, economic, and social attributes. Also, agroforestry simultaneously offers large-scale diversification in agriculture to get supplement fuel, fodder, fruits and fibres on one hand and stabilizing the ecosystems (increase the tree cover, production of timber and other wood products thus reduces the pressure on the forests) on the other hand. Furthermore, agroforestry offers important opportunities to combat climate change by mitigation strategies like carbon sequestration potential and decreasing the greenhouse gases or by adapting to the changing climate like creating the microclimate and increasing the biodiversity. However, in association with this agroforestry also create synergies between both adaptation and mitigation actions which is the necessity of the current times. Especially, agroforestry approaches like the use of Multi-Purpose Tree Species (MPTs), relay-cropping, terracing and contour cultivation, strip and alley cropping are appropriate to fulfil the needs of low-resource farmers by restoring and increasing land productivity through climate change mitigation and adaptation.
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