Scaling up agroforestry requires research 'in' rather than 'for' development

被引:148
作者
Coe, Richard [1 ]
Sinclair, Fergus [1 ]
Barrios, Edmundo [1 ]
机构
[1] World Agroforestry Ctr ICRAF, Nairobi 00100, Kenya
关键词
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE; KNOWLEDGE; AFRICA; YIELD;
D O I
10.1016/j.cosust.2013.10.013
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Recent high-level policy papers call for scaling-up agroforestry to sustainably increase agricultural production and maintain environmental services. Evidence suggests that this will not be achieved by wide scale promotion of a few iconic agroforestry practices. Instead, three key issues need to be addressed. First, fine-scale variation in social, economic and ecological context and how this creates a need for local adaptation. Second, the importance of developing appropriate service delivery mechanisms, markets, and institutional contexts, as well as technologies. Third, appropriate research design, within the scaling process, that enables co-learning amongst research, development and private sector actors. This requires a new paradigm that builds on previous integrated systems approaches; but goes further, by embedding research centrally within development praxis.
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页码:73 / 77
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