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Abstract
This chapter focuses on the application of a landscape-level perspective to enhance delivery of ecosystem goods and services from agroforestry in order to create more resilient agricultural landscapes. It provides an overview of landscape ecology, the patch-corridor-matrix model, recent approaches for improving matrix quality, and the multifunctional landscape framework. The chapter explores opportunities for agroforestry to contribute to a culture-based food supply that could improve human health and build on local knowledge. It provides an introduction to methods for assessing landscapes that offers guidance for strategically placing agroforestry practices based on landscape and site conditions. The chapter presents a case study of the Upper Sangamon River Watershed that demonstrates the value of research methods applied at the landscape scale. It describes how expanding landscape-scale agroforestry research could help to bring greater benefits and broader implementation.
Citation
Lovell, Sarah T.; Bentrup, Gary; Stanek, Erik. 2022. Agroforestry at the Landscape Level. In: Garrett, Harold E. “Gene”; Jose, Shibu; Gold, Michael A., eds. North American Agroforestry, 3rd Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: 417-435. Chapter 14. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780891183785.ch14
