Code
01D06821
Duration
01 October 2021 → 30 September 2025
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Agricultural and food sciences
- Sustainable agriculture
- Silviculture and agroforestry
Keywords
Agroforestry
carbon sequestration
carbon storage
ecosystem services
food forest
food production
forest garden
soil health
sustainable agriculture
Project description
This project responds to the need for more research evaluating the potential of the increasingly popular temperate food forests. It consists of an analysis of temperate food forests, an observational and experimental investigation of the delivery of supporting (soil health), regulating (carbon stock) and provisioning (food production) ecosystem services and a cost-benefit analysis of temperate food forests.