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The Coffee Compromise: Is Agricultural Expansion into Tree Plantations a Sustainable Option?

doi: 10.3390/su14053019
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.
- Natural Environment Research Council United Kingdom
- University of Brawijaya Indonesia
- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology United Kingdom
- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology United Kingdom
agroforestry; InVEST; Indonesia; ecosystem services; land-use change; trade-offs, InVEST, Environmental effects of industries and plants, TJ807-830, 910, TD194-195, 333, Renewable energy sources, agroforestry, land-use change, Environmental sciences, trade-offs, Agriculture and Soil Science, Indonesia, GE1-350, ecosystem services
agroforestry; InVEST; Indonesia; ecosystem services; land-use change; trade-offs, InVEST, Environmental effects of industries and plants, TJ807-830, 910, TD194-195, 333, Renewable energy sources, agroforestry, land-use change, Environmental sciences, trade-offs, Agriculture and Soil Science, Indonesia, GE1-350, ecosystem services
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