Efficient Use Of Land: An Underappreciated Climate Benefit of Agroforestry

Some of agroforestry’s biggest benefits are getting more notice these days. Carbon sequestration, resilience to extreme weather events, and improvements to water quality, wildlife habitat, and soil health are among these important benefits. But agroforestry also has less-discussed impacts of critical importance, from farm scale to planetary. Over the course of several installments on the Savanna Institute’s blog we’ll be examining these underappreciated reasons to scale up agroforestry.

Global demand for food, fiber, and biomass is on the rise, and a growing number of climate solutions use crops or biomass like wood as their most important raw material. There is not enough available land to meet this demand, which is already driving deforestation to clear land for agriculture in many parts of the world from Canada to Brazil. Yet preventing deforestation is also a critical climate change mitigation strategy.

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