The rooted pedon in a dynamic multifunctional landscape: Soil science at the World Agroforestry Centre

Noordwijk, Meine van; Barrios, Edmundo; Bayala, Joules; Öborn, Ingrid

doi:10.5716/wp15023.pdf

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“…The sample of respondent farmers comprised 30 people, with 12 people who were still planting shallots and 18 people who had not planted shallots this year but had tried to plant shallots in previous years, as mentioned in Table 1. Analysis of the data obtained using the SERI (shock-exposure-response-impact) analysis (ICRAF, 2017;Noordwijk et al, 2011) by carrying out steps including (1) identifying extraordinary events (shocks) that have occurred over the past few years, (2) identifying the exposure intensity, (3) identifying how farmers respond, and (4) identifying the impact of shocks, as well as analyzing buffers that can reduce the impact.…”

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Marketing Vulnerability of Shallot Farming in Tapin Regency, South Kalimantan, Indonesia

2023

JBAH

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Allium cepa (shallot) is an important commodity in Tapin Regency, South Kalimantan. Tapin Regency is a reliable shallot production area in South Kalimantan Province. Shallot farming is faced with uncertain climate conditions in Tapin Regency, which have an impact on changing the behavior of farmers in dealing with harvest and product marketing issues. Shallot production has decreased dramatically in the last five years in this area. Thus, it is urgent to identify the problems faced by farmers. To identify the existing problems, an analysis of shocks, exposure, responses, and impacts better known as the SERI analysis method was carried out. The research results showed that product marketing and government subsidies were problems that caused shocks due to unformed markets, simultaneous harvests, and an inability to compete with production from outside the region; furthermore, no longer receiving subsidies from the government prevented farmers from buying seeds due to the high price of seeds. The exposure experienced by the farmers was that the selling price became low, resulting in losses, and most farmers did not dare to continue to plant the next season's shallots. The response of the farmers to the shock conditions that occurred was that most of them sold cheap and lost money; there were a few who held back sales, while some surrendered, and almost all farmers switched to planting other commodities. The impact felt by farmers from these shocks was that their income decreased due to their loss, and there was no income from shallot farming. Buffer capacities that can be put in place to reduce the impact of these problems are actively seeking price and market information, forming marketing networks, adjusting planting times, adding product value by means of postharvest processing such as processing fried shallot or shallot paste, buying seeds by groups, using the best quality seeds, accessing financial institutions to obtain venture capital assistance, and conducting nurseries.

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Marketing Vulnerability of Shallot Farming in Tapin Regency, South Kalimantan, Indonesia

2023

JBAH

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“…Hence, the agroforestry system aimed to balance the fulfillment of land use management's ecological and economic needs. Furthermore, agroforestry patterns aimed to avoid deforestation on a large scale, maintain the area protection function through a layer of litter on the ground surface, regulate excess water in the area through evapotranspiration, and prevent the formation of ditches due to erosion [40]. In addition, implementing an agroforestry system on land with steep or rather steep slopes could reduce erosion rates and improve soil quality [41].…”

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Rehabilitation Strategy for Restoration of Riverbank Protection Function in the Merawu Watershed, Banjarnegara Regency

Sukmawati,

Widiyatno,

Suryatmojo

2023

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Riverbank is a buffer zone for the river ecosystem and the surrounding land. The significant land use changes and land cover reduction in the Merawu Watershed had put pressure on the riverbank and threatened the protection function sustainability. Thus, this study aims to 1) identify the riverbank’s ecological status, 2) identify its Protection Carrying Capacity (PCC), 3) determine the indicative location of rehabilitation, and 4) develop a rehabilitation strategy for restoring the riverbank protection function. The Riparian Quality Index (RQI) results indicated riverbank ecological degradation and deviation from natural conditions due to intensive tillage. The entire riverbank PCC status was poor due to less land cover in dryland agriculture and mixed dryland agriculture. Three indicative locations of rehabilitation were prioritized, i.e., Karangkobar (54.86 ha), Kalibening (41.21 ha), and Wanayasa Sub-districts (39.31 ha). Recommended riverbank rehabilitation strategies were 1) constructing bunds and bench terraces in sloping land, 2) implementing trees along the border (hedgerow) pattern and riparian buffer strips to increase land cover on cultivated riverbank lands, and 3) constructing gully plugs and retaining dams to strengthen riverbanks; using organic mulch; and planting the recommended species (Falcataria falcata, Artocarpus altilis, Dendrocalamus asper, and Gigantochloa apus) on degraded critical lands.

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“…While the extent to which the trajectory of unravelling ecosystems through climate change can be stopped or even reversed is uncertain, stabilising the global climate at 1.5 • C, and restoring wellbeing in conjunction with well-functioning ecosystems should be the principal goal, while building up community resilience to prepare for systemic future shocks. Such combinations of mitigation and adaptation practices have elsewhere been called 'mitigadaptation' [79] and invite national and international institutions to honestly and publicly consider and communicate the likelihood of risks from climate change impacts in different scenarios.…”

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Communities on a Threshold: Climate Action and Wellbeing Potentialities in Scotland

Meyerricks¹,

White

2021

Sustainability

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Community projects provide opportunities for their participants to collectively undertake climate action and simultaneously experience alternative concepts of wellbeing. However, we argue that community projects do so in ‘liminal’ ways—on the threshold of (unactualised) social change. We employed an ethnographic approach involving participant observation and qualitative interviews to investigate two community climate action projects in Scotland supported by the Climate Challenge Fund (CCF). We identify some of the outcomes and barriers of these projects in relation to promoting wellbeing through work, transport, participation and green spaces for food production, biodiversity and recreation. Projects’ achievements are contextualised in light of the urgent imperative to tackle climate change and against a background of social inequality. Liminal community projects are structurally constrained in their potential to create wider systemic changes. However, the projects’ potential to promote wellbeing among their participants can intersect with climate change mitigation when systemic and wide-ranging changes are adopted. These changes must involve a meaningful shift towards an economy that centres wellbeing, framed through principles of environmental justice and promoting social equity.

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The rooted pedon in a dynamic multifunctional landscape: Soil science at the World Agroforestry Centre

Abstract: PDF Titles in the Working Paper Series share interim results on agroforestry research and practices to stimulate feedback from the scientific community. Other publication series from the World Agroforestry Centre include agroforestry perspectives, technical manuals and occasional papers.

Cited by 7 publications

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Marketing Vulnerability of Shallot Farming in Tapin Regency, South Kalimantan, Indonesia

Marketing Vulnerability of Shallot Farming in Tapin Regency, South Kalimantan, Indonesia

Rehabilitation Strategy for Restoration of Riverbank Protection Function in the Merawu Watershed, Banjarnegara Regency

Communities on a Threshold: Climate Action and Wellbeing Potentialities in Scotland

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