Carbon benefits through agroforestry transitions on unmanaged fallow agricultural land in Hawai'i.

ABSTRACT: There are growing efforts to incorporate agroforestry into ecosystem service incentive programs. Indigenous and other place-based multi-strata agroforestry systems are important conservation and agricultural strategies, yet their ecosystem services, including carbon sequestration benefits, have received little research attention. To fill this gap, we draw on interviews with agroforestry practitioners and ecosystem service modeling in Hawai'i to: (1) create future scenarios of where fallow unmanaged agricultural and non-native dominated conservation lands could be transitioned to multi-strata agroforestry under current and future climates; and (2) quantify the potential above-ground carbon and soil carbon benefits and tradeoffs of transitions across these scenarios. We found that about half

SUBMITTER: Bremer LL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11814313 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature