Agroforestry Futures

农林业期货

• 批准号: NE/X004066/1
• 负责人: Lynn Frewer
• 金额: $ 30.99万
• 依托单位: Newcastle University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FX004066%2F1
• 关键词: Agroforestry; Futures

UK nature-based solutions, such as tree planting, must engage with the agricultural sector, given that agriculture uses more than 70 per cent of the land in the UK and is a major emitter of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Meeting the UK's tree planting targets and reducing agricultural GHG emissions may require converting current agricultural land to alternative land-uses. Agroforestry, where trees are deliberately combined with agriculture on the same piece of land, is one alternative land-use that maintains food production, but which can also drive down GHG emissions, deliver key ecosystem services, and create and improve (rural) livelihoods. Agroforestry supports several goals not only relevant to Net Zero, but for the UK government's 25 Year Environment Plan and Clean Growth Strategy. However, the environmental and societal benefits of agroforestry can only be realized through widespread adoption by key stakeholders, including farmers and land managers. The overall objective of the AF Futures project is to co-develop strategies to overcome barriers to, identify facilitators of, and increase opportunities for agroforestry practices in different UK contexts. Research focused on understanding the similarities in preferences and perceived challenges identified by different stakeholder groups, as well as how these might be addressed in local and national contexts will be conducted with AF futures, using a multidisciplinary approach. Integration of the natural, social and economic, sciences and arts and humanities is central to activities within AF Futures. Research addressing how regulatory structures, economic incentives, socio-economic drivers and impacts, and agronomic intervention shape agroforestry practices will be integrated through different disciplinary lenses. The arts and humanities will be used to create visual transitions from past representations of agroforestry to agroforestry futures, which integrate socio- economic outcomes and future biodiversity and ecosystem services, if adoption of different particular agroforestry approaches occurs.

英国基于自然的解决方案，如植树，必须与农业部门合作，因为农业使用了英国70%以上的土地，并且是温室气体的主要排放者。满足英国的植树目标和减少农业温室气体排放可能需要将目前的农业用地转换为替代土地用途。农林复合经营，即在同一块土地上故意将树木与农业结合起来，是一种替代土地利用方式，既可以维持粮食生产，又可以降低温室气体排放，提供关键的生态系统服务，创造和改善（农村）生计。复合农林业支持的几个目标不仅与净零相关，而且与英国政府的25年环境计划和清洁增长战略有关。然而，农林业的环境和社会效益只有通过包括农民和土地管理者在内的关键利益攸关方的广泛采用才能实现。AF未来项目的总体目标是共同制定战略，以克服障碍，确定促进者，并增加机会，在不同的英国背景下的农林实践。研究的重点是了解不同利益相关者群体确定的偏好和感知挑战的相似性，以及如何在地方和国家背景下解决这些问题，将使用多学科方法与AF未来一起进行。自然，社会和经济，科学，艺术和人文的整合是AF Futures活动的核心。将通过不同的学科视角，综合研究监管结构、经济激励措施、社会经济驱动因素和影响以及农艺干预措施如何塑造农林实践。艺术和人文将被用来创造从过去的农林表现到未来的农林的视觉过渡，如果采用不同的特定农林方法，将社会经济成果与未来的生物多样性和生态系统服务结合起来。