Evergreen Agriculture: a robust approach to sustainable food security in Africa

By D. Garrity, F. Akinnifesi, Olu Ajayi, S. G. Weldesemayat, J. Mowo, A. Kalinganire, M. Larwanou, J. Bayala. Food Security, 2010

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Forestry

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Citations in the corpus

• ‘Triple wins’ or ‘triple faults’? Analysing the equity implications of policy discourses on climate-smart agriculture (CSA) (2018, neutral): “2014), and agroforestry systems defined as ‘evergreen agriculture’ (Garrity et al. 2010).”
• Agriculture and food security in selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa: diversity in trends and opportunities (2011, background): “Food production can also benefit from a further integration of (preferably leguminous) trees into annual food crop systems, now referred to as Evergreen Agriculture (Garrity et al. 2010).”
• Knowledge gaps and research needs concerning agroforestry's contribution to sustainable development goals in Africa (2014, background): “Much evidence of successful agroforestry systems has been documented in different African biomes [22–26,27 ,28,29 ], but this is mostly based on specific resources or typical management systems.”
• Cereal yield response to conservation agriculture practices in drylands of West Africa: A quantitative synthesis (2012, methodology): “Locations of results of individual studies were put into rainfall classes based on long-term annual rainfall averages. ractices of conservation agriculture in four West African Sahelian countries (Burkina”
• Assessing global land use : balancing consumption with sustainable supply (2014, background): “This may foster a gradual shift of investments from fertilizer subsidies to sustainable on-farm fertility regeneration (Garrity et al. 2010).”
• Agricultural technologies for climate change in developing countries: Policy options for innovation and technology diffusion (2012, background): “Intercropping of trees and annual crops – so-called Evergreen Agriculture – appears promising in some semi-arid locations as a means of protecting and amending the soil (Garrity et al., 2010).”
• Climate Smart Agriculture? Assessing the Adaptation Implications in Zambia (2015, background): “Although urban poverty has decreased in the last 20 years, rural poverty has remained around 80% while the proportion of the population which is malnourished has increased by 23% since 1990 (Garrity et al., 2010; Chapoto et al., 2011).”
• Challenges and opportunities in linking carbon sequestration, livelihoods and ecosystem service provision in drylands (2012, background): “Some studies have shown that increases in surface layer storage may be partly offset by decreases in SOC storage below the depth of tillage (e.g. Machado et al., 2003) and the implications of such findings for carbon payment initiatives are now being questioned (e.g. Gattinger et al., 2011).”
• Overview of the Worldwide Spread of Conservation Agriculture (2015, background): “In the dry areas of Africa, it has been reported that CA with nitrogen fixing trees such as Faidherbia albida is widespread (Garrity et al., 2010).”
• Scaling up agroforestry requires research ‘in’ rather than ‘for’ development (2014, background): “Integrating trees in crop fields can contribute to implementing these principles [10].”
• Comprehending crystalline β-carotene accumulation by comparing engineered cell models and the natural carotenoid-rich system of citrus (2011, neutral): “Due to sorghum’s drought tolerance, it has become an important staple food for humans and animals in many arid regions of the world (Garrity et al., 2010).”
• Sustainable intensification in agricultural systems. (2014, background): “…for ‘alternative agriculture’ (NRC, 1989), for an ‘evergreen revolution’ (Swaminathan, 2000), for ‘agroecological intensification’ (Milder et al., 2012), for ‘green food systems’ (DEFRA, 2012), for ‘greener revolutions’ (Snapp et al., 2010) and for ‘evergreen agriculture’ (Garrity et al., 2010).”
• Building livelihood resilience: what role does agroforestry play? (2019, background): “For example, in Malawi, a study by Garrity et al. (2010) found that during drought farmers who practised agroforestry obtained modest crop yields, while farmers without agroforestry experienced crop failure.”
• Can Organic Sources of Nutrients Increase Crop Yields to Meet Global Food Demand? (2018, background): “In this respect, the authors [90,91] suggest that the types of intercropped trees can include species whose primary purpose is to provide products or benefits other than soil fertility replenishment alone, such as fodder, fruits, timber and fuel wood.”