Transforming agroforestry in contested landscapes: a win-win solution to trade-offs in ecosystem services in Nepal

K Aryal, T Maraseni, A Apan - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
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 to achieve global climate adaptation and mitigation targets: Are South Asian countries sufficiently prepared?

S Dhyani, IK Murthy, R Kadaverugu, R Dasgupta… - Forests, 2021 - mdpi.com
Traditional agroforestry systems across South Asia have historically supported millions of
smallholding farmers. Since, 2007 agroforestry has received attention in global climate …

Agricultural land abandonment in the hill agro-ecological region of Nepal: Analysis of extent, drivers and impact of change

YR Subedi, P Kristiansen, O Cacho… - Environmental …, 2021 - Springer
Despite widely reported trends of agricultural land abandonment across many parts of the
globe, this land use change phenomenon is relatively new in the context of Nepal. In recent …

Factors affecting the adoption of agroforestry practices: insights from silvopastoral systems of Colombia

R Jara-Rojas, S Russy, L Roco, D Fleming-Muñoz… - Forests, 2020 - mdpi.com
In Colombia, one-third of the land is devoted to cattle farming, which is one of the main
drivers of deforestation, land degradation, loss of biodiversity, and emissions of …

Remittances and land change: A systematic review

EA Mack, LA Sauls, BD Jokisch, K Nolte, B Schmook… - World Development, 2023 - Elsevier
Remittances—funds sent by migrants to family and friends back home—are an important
source of global monetary flows, and they have implications for the maintenance and …

Who adopts agroforestry in a subsistence economy?—Lessons from the Terai of Nepal

A Dhakal, RK Rai - Forests, 2020 - mdpi.com
Agroforestry is recognized as a sustainable land use practice. However, the uptake of such a
promising land use practice is slow. Through this research, carried out in a Terai district of …

Agroforestry systems and their contribution to supplying forest products to communities in the Chure range, Central Nepal

D Khadka, A Aryal, KP Bhatta, BP Dhakal, H Baral - Forests, 2021 - mdpi.com
Agroforestry (AF), an integration of agricultural and/or pastureland and trees, is a powerful
tool for the maximization of profit from a small unit of land; however, it has been less well …

Psychological factors influencing farmers' intention to adopt agroforestry: a structural equation modeling approach

J Buyinza, IK Nuberg, CW Muthuri… - Journal of Sustainable …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The biophysical characteristics of the farm and farmers' socioeconomic factors have been
used to explain adoption of technologies in Africa. However, agricultural technology …

Representing human decision-making in agent-based simulation models: Agroforestry adoption in rural Rwanda

B Noeldeke, E Winter, EB Ntawuhiganayo - Ecological Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
Advancing the transition towards more sustainable agriculture requires policy interventions
that support farmers' adoption of sustainable practices. Models can support policy-makers in …

Internal migration and land use and land cover changes in the middle mountains of Nepal

KC Bhawana, T Wang, P Gentle - Mountain research and development, 2017 - BioOne
The movement of rural households from remote uplands to valley floors and to semiurban
and urban areas (internal migration) is a common phenomenon in the middle mountain …