Agroforestry Futures

农林业期货

• 批准号: NE/X004414/1
• 负责人: Jennifer Clarke
• 金额: $ 9.75万
• 依托单位: Robert Gordon 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%2FX004414%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.

鉴于农业使用了英国70％以上的土地，并且是温室气体（GHGS）的主要发射极，因此基于英国自然的解决方案（例如种植）必须与农业部门互动。达到英国的植树目标并减少农业温室气体排放可能需要将当前的农业用地转换为替代土地。农林业在同一土地上故意将树木与农业结合在一起，是一种维持粮食生产的另一种土地利用，但也可以推动温室气体排放，提供关键的生态系统服务，并创造和改善（农村）生计。农林业不仅支持与净零净相关的几个目标，而且还支持英国政府的25年环境计划和清洁增长战略。但是，农林业的环境和社会利益只能通过包括农民和土地管理者在内的主要利益相关者的广泛收养来实现。 AF期货项目的总体目标是共同开发策略，以克服障碍，确定促进者的障碍，并增加英国不同环境中农林业实践的机会。研究的重点是了解不同利益相关者群体所确定的偏好和感知挑战的相似之处，以及如何使用多学科的方法在本地和国家背景下如何在本地和国家背景下解决这些挑战。自然，社会和经济，科学和艺术和人文科学的融合是自动锻炼期货活动的核心。研究涉及监管结构，经济激励措施，社会经济驱动力和影响以及农艺干预形状如何通过不同的纪律镜头整合农林业。如果采用不同特定的农业库存方法，则将使用艺术和人文科学来建立从农林业的过去表现到农林业未来的视觉过渡。

项目成果

Feeling Future Landscapes

感受未来风景

• 发表时间: 2023
• 作者: Clarke J

Feeling future forests

感受未来森林

• 发表时间: 2023
• 作者: Clarke J