Agroforestry Futures

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(GHGs)的主要排放者。要实现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换为替代土地用途。农林复合经营是在同一块土地上故意将树木与农业结合起来，是一种替代土地使用方式，可以维持粮食生产，但也可以减少温室气体排放，提供关键的生态系统服务，并创造和改善(农村)生计。农林业支持几个目标，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相关。然而，农林业的环境和社会效益只能通过包括农民和土地管理人员在内的主要利益攸关方的广泛采用来实现。AF Futures项目的总体目标是共同制定战略，以克服障碍，确定促进者，并在不同的英国背景下增加农林做法的机会。研究的重点是了解不同利益相关者群体在偏好和感知到的挑战方面的相似之处，以及如何在地方和国家背景下利用多学科方法与AF期货一起进行这些问题的解决。自然、社会和经济、科学、艺术和人文的融合是AF Futures内部活动的核心。将通过不同的学科视角，研究监管结构、经济激励、社会经济驱动因素和影响以及农艺干预措施如何影响农林复合实践。如果采用不同的具体农林方法，艺术和人文科学将被用来创造从过去对农林业的表述到农林未来的视觉过渡，这种未来融合了社会经济成果和未来的生物多样性和生态系统服务。

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.