The prevailing global environmental distress, particularly in rural areas, calls for the
adoption of integrated sustainable rural development strategies like climate-smart …

Payments for environmental services (PES), the non-provisioning part of ecosystem
services, target alignment of microeconomic incentives for land users with meso-and …

The first decade of the new millennium saw a boom in rubber prices. This led to rapid and
widespread land conversion to monoculture rubber plantations in continental SE Asia …

Smallholder-dominated agricultural mosaic landscapes are highlighted as model production
systems that deliver both economic and ecological goods in tropical agricultural landscapes …

Agroforestry as active area of multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary research aims to bridge
several artificial divides that have respectable historical roots but hinder progress toward …

Currently, mitigation and adaptation measures are handled separately, due to differences in
priorities for the measures and segregated planning and implementation policies at …

Rubber-based agroforestry (Hevea brasiliensis) systems are considered the best way to
improve soil properties and the overall environmental quality of rubber monoculture, but few …

Although rubber-based (Hevea brasiliensis) agroforestry systems are regarded as the best
approach to improving the sustainability of rubber agriculture and environmental …

Natural vegetation is important for ecosystem services (ESs) provision, but is decreasing
rapidly due to human-driven land use change, especially rapid expansion of commercial …

Shifting cultivation is one of the oldest forms of subsistence agriculture and is still practised
by millions of poor people in the tropics. Typically it involves clearing land (often forest) for …