Agroforestry for Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture in Asia and Africa

Jagdish Chander Dagar Former Assistant Director General in Natural Resource Management,  Indian Council of Agricultural Research New Delhi, India Sharda Rani Gupta Botany Department, Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra, India GW Sileshi Institute of Environmental Studies, Addis Ababa University Addis Ababa Ethiopia

Part I: Progress Towards Sustainable Intensification and Climate Change.- Chapter 1. Introduction: Agroforestry for Sustaining the Global Agriculture in Changed Environment.- Chapter 2. Agroforestry Matches the Evolving Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Agenda in Asia and Africa.- Chapter 3. Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration in Africa: Evidence for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Drylands.- Chapter 4. Urban and Peri-urban Agroforestry to Sustain Livelihood and Food Security in the Face of Global Environmental Change and Epidemic Threats.- Part II. Landscape Restoration and Combating Desertification.- Chapter 5. Agroforestry for Climate Change Resilience in Degraded Landscapes.- Chapter 6. The Great Green Wall Initiatives and Opportunities for Integration of Dryland Agroforestry to Mitigate Desertification.- Chapter 7. Silvopastoral Systems on Degraded Lands for Soil Carbon Sequestration and Climate Change Mitigation .- hapter 8. Utilization of Saline and Other Poor-quality Waters to Sustain Agroforestry Production.- Chapter 9. Potential of Agroforestry Systems for Food Security, Climate Change Mitigation, Landscape Restoration and Disaster Risk Reduction in Nepal.- Part III:  Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.- Chapter 10. The Role of Agroforestry Systems for Enhancing Biodiversity and Provision of Ecosystem Services in Agricultural Landscapes in Southeast Asia.- Chapter 11. Potentials of Indigenous Fruit Trees in Enhancing Nutrition, Income and Biodiversity Conservation in African Agroforestry.- Chapter 12. Ethnic Homestead Gardens: Diversity, Management and Conservation.- Chapter 13. Agroforestry for Plant Diversity and Livelihood Security in Southwest Asia.- Chapter 14. Achieving Biodiversity Conservation, Livelihood Security and Sustainable Development Goals through Agroforestry in Coastal and Island Regions of India and South East Asia.- Chapter 15.Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services of the Agroforestry Systems of the Himalayan Region: An Overview .- Chapter 16. Soil Biodiversity and Litter Decomposition in Agroforestry Systems of the Tropical Regions of Asia and Africa.- Part IV: Analytical Approaches and Policy Perspective.- Chapter 17. Agroforestry Suitability Mapping: A Geospatial Approach for Quantifying Land Potential for Intensification.- Chapter 18. Agroforestry as a Climate-Smart Agriculture: Strategic Interventions, Current Practices and Policies.- Chapter 19. Agroforestry as a Key Intervention to Achieve Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) Targets.- Chapter 20. Potential of Traditional Agroforestry Systems for Intensification of Agriculture and Meeting Global Goals: Lessons from Asia and Africa.- Chapter 21. A Framework for Analysing Spatial Patterns and Extent of Influence by Single Trees on Ecosystem Properties in Agroforestry.- Chapter 22. Integrating Moringa oleifera and Moringa stenopetala in Agroforestry for Adaptation and Mitigation of Climate Change in Asia and Africa.- Chapter 23.  Payment for Ecosystem Services from Agroforestry: Case Studies and Lessons.- Chapter 24. Agroforestry for Sustaining Industrial Raw Materials: Experience from a Value Chain Leveraged Consortium Model.- Chapter 25. Synthesis: Agroforestry for Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture in Asia and Africa.