Mediterranean agriculture has coevolved with harsh environments and changing climate
conditions over millennia, generating an extremely rich heritage of traditional knowledge; …

Context Agroecology combines agronomic and ecological concepts. It relies on the
enhancement of biodiversity and related ecosystem services to support agricultural …

Wood-pastures are archetypes of High Nature Value Farmlands in Europe and hold
exceptional ecological, social, and cultural values. Yet, wood-pastures have been through a …

Extensive cattle production currently occupies more than 27% of the rural landscapes in
Latin America, and continues to expand. This activity, deeply rooted in the culture and rural …

Land use systems that integrate woody vegetation with livestock and/or crops and are
recognised for their biodiversity and cultural importance can be termed high nature and …

Agro-silvopastoral land-use has a long tradition throughout Europe. Depending on the
region, wood-pasture occurs as vanishing relic of historical land-use, or still more or less …

Agroforestry is an integrated land use management that combines a woody component with
a lower story agricultural production recognized as one of the most important tools to …

Agroforestry is a new name for a rather old practice. From a historical point of view, various
agroforestry systems existed in Europe, of which the wood pastures (Neolithicum), the …

While a number of studies have applied public participation GIS (PPGIS) approaches to the
spatial assessment of ecosystem services, few have considered the associations between …

Agroforestry systems are traditional land use systems that were and are used in Europe.
They can be defined as those land use systems which involve two main components …