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Forests are well-known for their ability to store carbon and conserve biodiversity, but they also provide a wealth of benefits for agriculture. By regulating climate and rainfall, protecting soils and conserving water resources, forests and trees help improve crop productivity, strengthen climate resilience, and improving the health, safety and livelihoods of rural communities.
These benefits remain underexplored in global policy and development frameworks, which often treat forest conservation and agricultural production as opposing, mutually exclusive goals. The “Climate and ecosystem service benefits of forests and trees for agriculture” report – which brought together over 40 authors from 25 institutions – aims to change that by providing evidence of forest benefits to agriculture from a diversity of landscapes.
The event will kickstart a conversation on ways to enhance efforts that foster synergies between agriculture and forests in a rapidly changing world.
Project / This project brings together global research on the benefits of forests and trees to agriculture.
One-SEI program / Finding synergies between otherwise competing land uses could reduce conflicts, prevent deforestation and biodiversity loss and support sustainable agriculture.
Press release / Protecting and restoring forests is crucial to boosting climate-resilient agriculture, rural livelihoods and global food and water security.
Perspective / This perspective offers insights about how forests and trees benefit the agricultural sector. It argues that policymakers should act to leverage these benefits.
Other publication / This policy brief highlights the value of agroforestry as an important source of bioenergy for households and small-scale industries.
