Where is agroforestry most common?
What are the advantages of using agroforestry?
Why is agroforestry sustainable land use system?
What is called agroforestry?
The best level for an analysis of natural resource management is a watershed or catchment area. From the highlands to the sea, a succession of ecosystems, or agroecosystems, interact and have an impact on one another through the movement of water and soils as well as by human activity in each agroecosystem. So, discussing the watershed is a good place to start in order to comprehend the role of agroforestry at the landscape level. In most cases, the watershed can be used to identify a typical pattern of land uses (agroecosystems).
These land uses are not constant; they shift over time in response to elements including population, land productivity, technological advancements, institutional developments, and legislation.
A watershed’s land use decisions have both local and regional effects. The on-site effects, which have a direct impact on the farming business, are valued by each farming household. The externalities (off-farm effects) have an impact on a much larger stakeholder group.
The society may establish formal and informal regulations and organizations through policy and institutions to control or regulate these effects. It is crucial to comprehend how land use affects both on and off farms as well as upstream and downstream interactions.