Highlights•Modeling shows agroforestry's promising ability to buffer crops from climate
extremes.•Agroforestry can increase adaptive capacity, and help cope with risk or …

Abstract Development and humanitarian agencies have rapidly embraced the concept of
resilience since the 2008 global financial and food price crises. We report the results of a …

In recent years, rural-farmer families have encountered a higher level of vulnerability to
drought than all other communities in the world including Iran. As well, their vulnerability has …

Trade-offs in ecosystem services (ES) is increasingly becoming a pressing issue in
sustainability science, to deal with supply constraints of landscape and divergence in …

Agroforestry is an agricultural diversification practice that purposefully grows trees together
with crops and/or animals. Nitrogen (N) plays a pivotal role in the sustainability and …

Agroforestry (AF)-based adaptation to global climate change can consist of (1) reversal of
negative trends in diverse tree cover as generic portfolio risk management strategy;(2) …

Recognizing the resilience and especially the livelihood resilience of farmers is of great
importance for policy makers. Thus, the present study is aimed to analyze farmers' livelihood …

The alleviation of global poverty is a major objective of the 2030 UN Sustainable
Development Goals (notably SDG1 “to end poverty in all its forms everywhere”). Many rural …

Mixed production systems, in which producers have some combination of perennial and
annual crops, livestock, and/or fisheries, are the most common form of farming in low-and …

Since 2014, China's photovoltaic poverty alleviation projects (PPAPs) have developed
rapidly with the strong support of the Chinese government. Nevertheless, empirical evidence …