Harnessing Agroforestry for Climate Change Solutions

Abstract

Globally, the impact of climate change on microbes, plants, animals, humans, and other environmental elements has called for urgent, safe, and sustainable interventions. Primarily, climate change leads to drought, land degradation, soil fertility depletion, erosion, and the unfolding of new pests and diseases, which consequently affect food security. Different methods targeted at reducing greenhouse gas emissions involved the transition to renewable energy sources, the adoption of new technologies in the industrial and transportation sectors, and good agricultural practices mechanisms such as zero, tillage, crop rotation, and agroforestry. However, of all these methods, agroforestry is unique, as it is able to mitigate and alleviate the effects of climate change. Therefore, this chapter discusses the mechanisms through which Agroforestry alleviates climate change, identifies the research gaps, and recommends how agroforestry can be better explored to alleviate the effects of climate change.