Socio-economic and Environmental Assets Sustainability by Agroforestry Systems: A Review

Agroforestry has a long history in ancient times, and it has been widespread everywhere until now. Agroforestry systems with native trees as well as introduced trees provide an exciting illustration in which sustainability, regulatory, habitat, provisional, and other environment pairs are at the same time exploited. In the present review study, the potential of the agroforestry system to optimize different socioeconomic returns like food, fuelwood, fodder, fiber, timber, non-timber forest products, and additional income, etc. Potential of agroforestry system in the farm of environment services protect soil erosion, bioenergy, affects to carbon fixing, diversify agricultural landscapes with trees, sustainable land management practice, control of pests by their natural enemies and habitat of biological diversity in the world. The review indicates that the nation’s cultivators should be awake and aware of agroforestry system possibilities and competence, and these growers should contribute in developing the cultivation of agroforestry system viable as economically returns as well as environmentally returns for world farmers. To increase tree cover areas of the world out of the total geographical areas, the agroforestry system has the competence to provide a faster rate of tree farms increment according to forest policies for the sustainable livelihood of the farmers.

Agroforestry systems impact positively on ecology and environment.

Agroforestry systems have a reversible relationship with livelihood and biodiversity in multifunctional landscapes.