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Carbon Sequestration in Agroforestry and Horticulture Based Farming Systems: Mitigating Climate Change and Advancing Food and Nutrition Security

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Today, changing climate is gaining great attention among the scientific community over the past few decades. Deforestation, unsustainable land use practices, intensive farming practices, higher inputs of synthetic fertilizers, overuses of inorganic fertilizers, industrialization and other anthropogenic and natural process are widely considered to be driving factors for climate change and global warming. No doubt, intensive agriculture enhances the food availability but quality is low due to low nutrients in fruits that affect the health of the people and release GHGs (greenhouse gases) into the atmosphere results in environmental degradation. In this context, agroforestry (tree-crop-livestock’s combinations) and horticulture-based farming systems (HBFs) (primarily fruit tree & crops) are well known and based on the principles of ecological and sustainable intensification, popular among academician, researchers and policy makers, and are gaining wide recognition due to its multifarious benefits and ecosystem services. Tree-crop-livestock’s combination in various models of agroforestry systems (AFs) in a single piece of land creates more diversifying products (timber, fuelwood & NTFPs), enhances soil fertility, regulates water and air quality, promotes efficient closed nutrient cycling, increase biomass and litter production, solve hunger problems by FNS (through nutritive fruits), and reduce atmospheric CO2 through carbon (C) sequestration. Agroforestry itself is proven a viable strategy to combat climate change through C sequestration. However, horticulture-based farming system (HBFs)nurture the populations by producing highly nutritive and quality fruits along with minimizing the emissions of GHGs (mainly C) through the process of C sequestration. In the lieu of the above, this chapter discusses about C sequestration potential in various AFs and explores sequestration possibilities in HBFs in the tropics. This chapter explore “how the C sequestration ability of the horticulture based integrated farming systems compares with other agroforestry models in the tropics?”

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Raj, A., Jhariya, M.K. (2023). Carbon Sequestration in Agroforestry and Horticulture Based Farming Systems: Mitigating Climate Change and Advancing Food and Nutrition Security. In: Ghosh, S., Kumari Panda, A., Jung, C., Singh Bisht, S. (eds) Emerging Solutions in Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40908-0_7

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