Agroforestry Systems as a Tool In Sustainable Rural Development, Food Scarcity and Income Generation

Shashank Shukla; Vijay Vardhan Pandey; Vikas Kumar

doi:10.36808/if/2018/v144i4/115839

Agroforestry Systems as a Tool In Sustainable Rural Development, Food Scarcity and Income Generation

Authors

Shashank Shukla Forest Research Institute, P.O. New Forest, Dehradun, Uttarakhand
Vijay Vardhan Pandey Forest Research Institute, P.O. New Forest, Dehradun, Uttarakhand
Vikas Kumar RLB Central Agricultural University, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36808/if/2018/v144i4/115839

Keywords:

Agroforestry, Rural Development, Food Crisis, Employment Generation.

Abstract

Massive deforestation has resulted from a sequence of urbanization, road building, extractive logging, and pasture development during the few decades. Food security in the midst of scenarios of climate change, economic and energy crisis, led to the concepts of food sovereignty and agroforestry based production systems to gain much attention in the developing world to overcome this food crisis. The fast growing tree species in combination with agricultural crop may increase the employment generation for the nursery growers, local labours, small scale wood industries, and other wood merchantperson. According to the National Agroforestry Policy-2014, agroforestry has significant potential to provide employment to rural and urban population through production, industrial application and value addition ventures. Current estimates show that about 65 % of the country's timber requirement is met from the trees grown on farms. Agroforestry also generates significant employment opportunities. In this present review authors sought to identify both economically viable and more sustainable development alternatives through the agroforestry systems for the rural development.

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