Trends in agroforestry research over 4 decades | Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene | University of California Press
Zoe Hastings Silao, Xorla S. Ocloo, Melissa Chapman, Lauren Hunt, Katelyn Stenger; Trends in agroforestry research over 4 decades. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 5 January 2023; 11 (1): 00151. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2022.00151 Download citation file: Agroforestry has a high potential to contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation as a nature-based climate solution and is increasingly included as a climate strategy in international agreements and national plans. Yet, how to equitably increase and sustain agroforestry on the scale needed to meet these targets remains unclear. Examining broad trends in the existing 4 decades of agroforestry literature can highlight gaps and opportunities for future research that enables agroforestry transitions. Using text analytics and a full-text, corpus-based approach, we analyzed changes in word use in 9,664 agroforestry research articles and reports published between 1980 and 2020 with regard to 4 key themes of the so