Agroforestry Practices: Win–Win Solutions for Ecosystem Services

Dear Colleagues,

Climate change is affecting all regions around the world, and its consequences impact many different aspects of our lives. In addition, the constant demand for better quality food with less environmental impact is exerting greater pressure. Although efforts have been made to solve many of these problems, there are many challenges still to be solved. Agroforestry systems have real potential to help mitigate the impact of climate change and the demand for better quality food, in addition to the great diversity of ecosystem services (enhanced carbon stock, healthy soil, nutrient cycling, and wild food and animals, among others) that derive from the adequate integration of natural resources with food production systems.

This Special Issue is oriented toward publishing cutting-edge research that contributes to finding agroforestry solutions to current problems.

• Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
• Management of agroecosystems for food production;
• Strategies for agroecosystem restoration;
• Biotic and abiotic interactions in agroforestry systems;
• Carbon in biomass and soils;
• Agroforestry for improved livelihoods;
• Biophysical and socio-economic factors;
• Nutrient cycling and ecosystem services.

Dr. Francisco Aurelio Galindo Maldonado
Dr. Francisco J. Solorio-Sanchez
Guest Editors

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