Agroforestry Systems
for Ecological Restoration
How to reconcile conservation and production
Options for Brazil’s Cerrado and Caatinga biomes
The main objective of this book is to guide the adoption of agroforestry systems (AFS) to restore and recover altered and degraded areas, using strategies that reconcile conservation with social benefits.
It came about through a participatory research process involving extensionists, farmers, researchers, policy makers and practitioners in the field of restoration and AFS.
I worked on the illustration of the succession of agroforestry systems in 3 different temporalities, representing the development of species and the composition of different strata over time.
Illustrations: Patricia Yamamoto and Zoltar Design
Graphic Design and Cover: Wagner Soares
Layout: Guilherme Werner, Wagner Soares and Wagner Ulisses
Planting sketches: Guilherme Werner
Authors: Miccolis A, Pereira A V B, Peneireiro F M, Marques H R, Vieira D L M, Arco-Verde M F, Hoffmann M R, Rehder T, and Pereira A V B.
Above a representation of an agroforestry system in the Cerrado with intensive management, with 2 to 3 years, and 7 to 10 years, in the north-south and east-west views.
For some of the most common situations, like degraded pastures and areas with secondary plant growth, the book presents 11 illustrated agroforestry options to be adapted to each farm’s specific characteristics.
Recommendations include detailed descriptions of 19 key species for the recovery of degraded areas, and a total of 130 species deemed important for AFS-based restoration in a general table with functional attributes.
Although this book focuses on Brazil’s Cerrado and Caatinga biomes, the approach for socio-environmental diagnoses, the principles and criteria for selecting species and designing systems, as well as the implementation and management techniques, can be applied in other regions as well.
Biodiverse agroforestry for restoration of riparian forests in three different temporalities: 2 to 3 years, 7 to 10 years and 20 years.
Agroforestry in strips interspersed with enrichment of the Cerrado, with management of 2 to 3 years and 7 to 10 years.
Agloforest succession from 3 months, 2 to 3 years and 7 to 10 years, for the restoration of degraded areas with fertilizer species.
And above, restoration of degraded areas in the Caatinga since 6 months, after 2 to 3 years and 7 to 10 years.
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more about this work: https://new.worldagroforestry.org/publication/agroforestry-systems-ecological-restoration-how-reconcile-conservation-and-production
ISBN: 978-85-63288-18-9