Climate Change mitigation and adaptation through Sustainable Agriculture - Agroforestry

Agriculture has extracted wide expanses from the natural system for food production. The concept of intensification of food production, adopted in the last 50 years, has encouraged monocultures and the complete eradication of elements of the natural system, which are considered hazards. However, this has increased the level and rate of infestations by insects and fungal species, soil degradation, which requires use of subsidies from chemical or natural fertilizers, and water pollution from the utilized large array of chemicals. Realizing these losses, today we are promoting more healthy agricultural techniques and practices to induce sustainability of produce, while reducing negative environmental and agricultural impacts and assisting climate change mitigation and adaptation, thus we are resorting to AGROFORESTRY techniques and practices.