| Persons in charge: | Gosling, E.; Reith, E.; Paul, C. |
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| Funded by: | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - PA3162/1 |
| Cooperation partners: | Uni Göttingen |
A major challenge of this century is to satisfy the increasing food and energy demands of a growing world population without further depleting natural resources. Agroforestry has been promoted as a way to meet these demands while providing a higher level of ecosystem services. Past research in this field has often focused on the plot level, but scientists and policy-makers are calling for multi-functional landscapes, which support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals 2 and 15.
This project aims to develop a mechanistic land-use modelling approach for multi-functionality, to identify the conditions under which agroforestry could contribute to reducing land-use conflicts. It will investigate the level of diversification most appropriate at the plot, farm and landscape levels to bring together public interests and farmers' objectives. For this purpose single- and multi-objective modelling approaches to optimize land-use allocation under uncertainty will be further developed. As a prototype, the approach will be developed for a typical tropical landscape at the forest frontier in eastern Panama.
A landscape level approach will first tackle the question of how much agroforestry is desirable in a landscape portfolio to achieve multiple ecosystem services while reducing trade-offs between them (multi-objective model). A farm level model will investigate how agroforestry should be designed to be an efficient part of a farm portfolio that satisfies the farmer’s (most likely economic) needs (single-objective model). The key question to answer will be whether including efficient agroforestry systems may reduce differences in the landscapes optimized from farmers' and the public perspective.
Publications
Reith, E. (2023): Reshaping Land Use: Multifunctional Landscapes as Win-Win Strategies? . Seminar Waldbau,Ökosystemdynamik und Forstplanung.
Reith, E. (2023): Exploring the Role of Agroforestry as a Tool for Forest Landscape Restoration in Eastern Panama Using Robust Optimization. Symposium Research on Natural Resource Management.
Reith, E. (2023): Can agroforestry reduce land-use conflicts at the tropical forest frontier? Seminar Waldbau, Ökosystemdynamik und Forstplanung, Freising.
Reith, E.; Gosling, E.; Knoke, T.; Paul, C. (2022): Potential of Agroforestry in Panama. AgScience on Tap, Feising. Download
Gosling, E. (2021): Robust optimisation as a tool to evaluate agroforestry at the tropical forest frontier. Digitale Forstwissenschaftliche Tagung (FowiTa) 13-15 September 2021, Technische Universität München.
Gosling, E. (2021): Evaluating agroforestry from the farmers’ perspective: Insights from robust multi-criteria optimisation in eastern Panama. Dissertation, Technische Universtität München, Freising: 1-146 p. Download
Reith, E.; Gosling, E.; Knoke, T.; Paul, C. (2021): Das Potenzial der Agroforstwirtschaft zur Wiederbewaldung . AFZ - Der Wald (19): 22-25. Download
Reith, E. (2021): Agroforstwirtschaft in einer multifunktionalen und unsicheren Welt: wie robuste Optimierungsmodelle die Forschung bereichern können. Risikoworkshop 2021, Freising.
Gosling, E.; Knoke, T.; Reith, E.; Paul, C. (2021): Can agroforestry complement a strong cattle culture at the tropical forest frontier? . Virtual IUFRO Conference Small Scale Forestry, 10 February 2021.
Gosling, E.; Knoke, T.; Reith, E.; Reyes Cáceres, A.; Paul, C. (2021): Which Socio-economic Conditions Drive the Selection of Agroforestry at the Forest Frontier? Environmental Management, 67(6): 1119-1136. doi: 10.1007/s00267-021-01439-0. Download
Gosling, E.; Reith, E.; Paul, C. (2020): Agroforstwirtschaft – ein Gewinn für Landwirte und Umwelt? . AFZ - Der Wald (17): 26-28. Download
Reith, E.; Gosling, E.; Knoke, T.; Paul, C. (2020): How Much Agroforestry is Needed to Achieve Multifunctional Landscapes at the Forest Frontier? —Coupling Expert Opinion with Robust Goal Programming . sustainability 12 : 1-27. doi: 10.3390/su12156077. Download
Gosling, E.; Reith, E.; Knoke, T.; Gerique, A.; Paul, C. (2020): Exploring farmer perceptions of agroforestry via multi-objective optimisation: a test application in Eastern Panama . Agroforestry Systems : 1-18. doi: 10.1007/s10457-020-00519-0 . Download
Gosling, E. (2020): Uncertainty when selecting indicators to evaluate agroforestry in tropical landscapes. Risikoworkshop 2020, Freising. Download
Gosling, E.; Reith, E.; Knoke, T.; Paul, C. (2020): A goal programming approach to evaluate agroforestry systems in Eastern Panama. Journal of Environmental Management 261: 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110248. Download
Gosling, E.; Reith, E. (2019): Capturing Farmers’ Knowledge: Testing the Analytic Hierarchy Process and a Ranking and Scoring Method . Society & Natural Resources : 1-9. doi: 10.1080/08941920.2019.1681569.
Paul, C.; Reith, E.; Salecker, J.; Knoke, T. (2019): How Integrated Ecological-Economic Modelling Can Inform Landscape Pattern in Forest Agroecosystems . Current Landscape Ecology Reports . doi: 10.1007/s40823-019-00046-4.
Gosling, E. (2019): Uncertainty when optimising tropical land-use portfolios based on farmer knowledge. Risikoworkshop, Lohr am Main.
Gosling, E. (2019): Robust land-use modelling informed by farmer knowledge – assessing the socio-economic potential of agroforestry systems in Panama. World Congress on Agroforestry, Montpellier, Frankreich.
Reith, E.; Gosling, E.; Paul, C. (2018): Auswahl von Agroforstsystemen auf unsicherer Datenbasis am Beispiel Panama. 6.Forum Agroforstsysteme, Göttingen.
Reith, E.; Gosling, E.; Knoke, T.; Uhde, B.; Paul, C. (2018): Ökosystemleistungen bewerten – Beispiele aus Chile und Panama. AFZ-Der Wald (14): 13-15. Download
Thesis
Glatzle, P. (2019): Baum-Gras-Vieh-Interaktionen in silvopastoralen Systemen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung von Feldeinsatz in Panama (Supervisors: Knoke, T., Reith, E.)
Duarte, R. (2018): Relating land-use diversification to household (socio-economic) characteristics in eastern Panama (Supervisors: Knoke, T., Gosling, E.)
Reyes Cáceres, A. (2018): Assessing the economic potential of Agroforestry Systems in Torti, Eastern Panama (Supervisors: Knoke, T., Gosling, E.)
Schulte, M. (2018): Land use optimization at small-scale farm level in Panama (Supervisors: Paul, C.)