Livelihood security and employment opportunities through agroforestry based smart agriculture
Agroforestry as a land use system provides a tremendous potential to contribute towards livelihood security and rural development through employment generation. The selection of suitable agroforestry model for a specific agro-ecological region is very important particularly in reference to small and marginal farmers. Screening and evaluation of selected multipurpose trees for higher returns and better compatibility with intercrops is essential to increase the productivity and economic returns. Standardization, refinement and dissemination of agroforestry based amelioration technologies for problem soils, development, standardization and adoption of agroforestry models linked with market for enhancing productivity and profitability of small holding farmers is one of the important solutions to meet the future challenges. In a country where, more than 85 % are small holders and 67 % are having only 0.38 ha to feed their family and generate sufficient income for the decent livelihood, desirable diversification in farming system perspective is essential. Holistic and innovative approaches are found to be better for improving the profitability of highly location specific systems. Complementing the farming systems with bio-intensive cropping systems which can take care of food, fodder, fibre, fuel and fertility requirement of the system is also essential for long term sustainability of small holder systems. Appropriate marketing interventions and capacity-building programmes provide better economic returns and will be instrumental to check the migration of rural youth towards urban areas. Keywords: Agroforestry, agro-ecological regions, Livelihood security, Agroforestry Policy ID: 3485314
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| Format: | Article biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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FAO ;
2022
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| Online Access: | https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/CC1417EN http://www.fao.org/3/cc1417en/cc1417en.pdf |
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