The coffee compromise: is agricultural expansion into tree plantations a sustainable option?

Fitch, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6260-8957; Rowe, Rebecca L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7554-821X; McNamara, Niall P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5143-5819; Prayogo, Cahyo; Ishaq, Rizky Maulana; Prasetyo, Rizki Dwi; Mitchell, Zak; Oakley, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5757-7420; Jones, Laurence ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4379-9006. 2022 The coffee compromise: is agricultural expansion into tree plantations a sustainable option? [in special issue: Benefits enclosed in agroforestry-based systems] Sustainability, 14 (5), 3019. 17, pp. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14053019

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Abstract/Summary

In tropical regions, land-use pressures between natural forest, commercial tree plantations, and agricultural land for rural communities are widespread. One option is to increase the functionality of commercial plantations by allowing agroforestry within them by rural communities. Such land-sharing options could address wider societal and environmental issues and reduce pressure on natural forest. To investigate the trade-offs involved, we used InVEST to model the ecosystem services provided by growing coffee under commercial pine plantations in Indonesia against other land-use options. Pine–coffee agroforestry provided worse supporting and regulating services (carbon, sediment and nitrogen retention, catchment runoff) than natural forest; however, it provided greater provisioning services (product yield) directly to smallholders. Converting pine monoculture into pine-coffee agroforestry led to increases in all ecosystem services, although there was an increased risk to water quality. Compared with coffee and root crop monocultures, pine–coffee agroforestry provided higher levels of supporting and regulating services; however, product yields were lower. Thus, opening up pine plantations for agroforestry realises additional income-generating opportunities for rural communities, provides wider ecosystem service benefits, and reduces pressure for land-use change. Lower smallholder yields could be addressed through the management of shade levels or through Payments for Ecosystem Services schemes.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.3390/su14053019
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Soils and Land Use (Science Area 2017-)
ISSN:	2071-1050
Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:	Open Access paper - full text available via Official URL link.
Additional Keywords:	agroforestry, InVEST, Indonesia, ecosystem services, land-use change, trade-offs
NORA Subject Terms:	Agriculture and Soil Science
Date made live:	06 Apr 2022 11:18 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/532420

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