Agroforestry Futures

农林业期货

• 批准号: NE/X004252/1
• 负责人: Martin Lukac
• 金额: $ 10.91万
• 依托单位: University of Reading
• 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%2FX004252%2F1
• 关键词: Agroforestry; Futures

UK nature-based solutions, such as tree planting, must engage with the agricultural sector, given that agriculture usesmore than 70 per cent of the land in the UK and is a major emitter of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Meeting the UK's treeplanting targets and reducing agricultural GHG emissions may require converting current agricultural land to alternativeland-uses. Agroforestry, where trees are deliberately combined with agriculture on the same piece of land, is onealternative land-use that maintains food production, but which can also drive down GHG emissions, deliver key ecosystemservices, and create and improve (rural) livelihoods. Agroforestry supports several goals not only relevant to Net Zero, butfor the UK government's 25 Year Environment Plan and Clean Growth Strategy. However, the environmental and societalbenefits of agroforestry can only be realized through widespread adoption by key stakeholders, including farmers and landmanagers. The overall objective of the AF Futures project is to co-develop strategies to overcome barriers to, identifyfacilitators of, and increase opportunities for agroforestry practices in different UK contexts. Research focused onunderstanding the similarities in preferences and perceived challenges identified by different stakeholder groups, as well ashow these might be addressed in local and national contexts will be conducted with AF futures, using a multidisciplinaryapproach. Integration of the natural, social and economic, sciences and arts and humanities is central to activities withinAF 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 artsand 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 particularagroforestry 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，是温室气体（ghg）的主要排放源。为了达到英国的植树目标和减少农业温室气体排放，可能需要将现有的农业用地转化为其他用途。农林业是指在同一块土地上有意将树木与农业结合起来，是一种可替代的土地利用方式，既能维持粮食生产，又能减少温室气体排放，提供关键的生态系统服务，创造和改善（农村）生计。农林业不仅支持与净零相关的几个目标，而且支持英国政府的25年环境计划和清洁增长战略。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相关者的广泛采用才能实现。AF期货项目的总体目标是共同制定战略，以克服英国不同情况下农林业实践的障碍，确定促进因素并增加机会。研究重点是了解不同利益相关者群体在偏好和感知挑战方面的相似性，并表明这些可能在地方和国家背景下得到解决，将采用多学科方法对AF期货进行研究。自然、社会和经济、科学、艺术和人文的整合是af期货活动的核心。将通过不同的学科视角整合有关监管结构、经济激励、社会经济驱动因素和影响以及农艺干预如何影响农林业实践的研究。艺术和人文学科将被用来创造从过去的农林业表现到未来的农林业的视觉过渡，如果采用不同的特定农林业方法，它将整合社会经济成果和未来的生物多样性和生态系统服务。