GOT TREES? Building Climate-Ready Agriculture.
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Dec 05, 2014
from 11:00 AM US/Eastern to 12:00 PM US/Eastern |
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| Contact Name | Sarah Workman |
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Agroforestry practices provide public and private benefits that are shared across land ownerships, political boundaries and programs and this now includes use as a climate-smart option for providing climate change adaptation and mitigation services in the U.S. Agroforestry builds adaptive capacity in agricultural operations and lands by creating landscape connectivity to facilitate species migration and refuges for a diversity of organisms, modifying microclimate to manage production under shifting weather, and diversifying income streams for producers. Agroforestry builds mitigative capacity by sequestering C, as well as influencing other GHG emissions – doing so while being in place for non-GHG purposes. Advances in research are creating the basis for tools that can help farmers, ranchers and other land managers better design and locate these practices, to visualize multiple design options on their lands, compare benefits and trade-offs, and to begin to assess agroforestry’s GHG contributions.
