Integrating Landscapes: Agroforestry for Biodiversity Conservation and Food Sovereignty

This updated and expanded second edition summarizes advances in agroforestry research and practice and proposes alternatives to increase the effectiveness of agroforestry systems. It offers an important contribution to help solve the most pressing development and environmental challenges in this sector today. 

The contributing authors present views from the academic, the practitioner and the development areas. Chapters offer alternatives and suggestions for facing challenges in agroforestry adoption, profitability, and in the implementation of integrated landscape management approaches.

With new chapters and substantial revisions made in many others, the scope was broadened both geographically and thematically. Students, Scientists and practitioners will therefore gain more insights from Africa and Asia, as well as the Americas.

Florencia Montagnini has over 30 years of experience researching and teaching in topics on sustainability of managed ecosystems such as forest, tree plantations, and agroforestry systems. Her research encompasses sustainable land-use systems that integrate ecological principles with economic, social, and political factors; the principles and applications of forest landscape restoration; the reforestation of degraded lands with native species; organic farming using indigenous resources; biodiversity conservation in human-dominated landscapes; and biodiversity islands. Since 1989, she has worked as a professor and researcher at the Yale School of the Environment, as well as the Tropical Agriculture Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE). She has written 12 books and almost 300 scientific articles about the ecology of tropical forests, agroforestry systems, native species reforestation, forest landscape restoration, and biodiversity islands.