Ecosystem Services in the Context of Agroforestry-Results of a Survey among Agricultural Land Users in the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41320%2F23%3A96993" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41320/23:96993 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f14010030" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f14010030</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f14010030" target="_blank" >10.3390/f14010030</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Ecosystem Services in the Context of Agroforestry-Results of a Survey among Agricultural Land Users in the Czech Republic

Original language description

Agroforestry, the use of trees at the interface between agricultural and forestry systems, is a key component of the multifunctional European landscape, where it provides a whole range of ecosystem services. Its main potential lies in the provision of services including increasing economic yield in agriculture and providing anti-erosion measures. The main objective of this research is to assess the perception of the providing ecosystem services of woody plants growing in agroforestry by farmers as key land users in the Czech Republic. Different aspects influencing farmers' subjective perceptions were identified, especially depending on conventional versus organic farming methods. Respondents' views were mapped using a structured questionnaire, which allowed for independently assessing the importance of windbreaks. Respondents considered regulatory ecosystem services the most important ones, in particular reducing soil erosion and flood risk, or increasing the resilience of the landscape to drought. Respondents perceived the physical obstruction of trees during mechanical tillage and the tenancy relationship with the land as the most significant problem with the introduction of agroforestry systems. The aim of this study is to promote innovative approaches in the national agricultural strategy in agroforestry as one of the tools for climate change adaptation towards sustainable agricultural production.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40102 - Forestry

Project

<a href="/en/project/QK21020371" target="_blank" >QK21020371: Sustainable management in small-owner forest estates</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

FORESTS

ISSN

1999-4907

e-ISSN

1999-4907

Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

1-23

UT code for WoS article

000915059400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85146776959