Agroforestry is paying off – Economic evaluation of ecosystem services in European landscapes with and without agroforestry systems

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dc.contributor.authorKay, Sonja
dc.contributor.authorGraves, Anil
dc.contributor.authorPalma, João H. N.
dc.contributor.authorMoreno, Gerardo
dc.contributor.authorRoces-Díaz, José V.
dc.contributor.authorAviron, Stephanie
dc.contributor.authorChouvardas, Dimitrios
dc.contributor.authorCrous-Duran, Josep
dc.contributor.authorFerreiro-Domínguez, Nuria
dc.contributor.authorGarcia de Jalon, Silvestre
dc.contributor.authorMacicasan, Vlad
dc.contributor.authorMosquera-Losada, María Rosa
dc.contributor.authorPantera, Anastasia
dc.contributor.authorSantiago-Freijanes, Jose Javier
dc.contributor.authorSzerencsits, Erich
dc.contributor.authorTorralba, Mario
dc.contributor.authorBurgess, Paul
dc.contributor.authorHerzog, Felix
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-06T09:28:33Z
dc.date.available2019-02-06T09:28:33Z
dc.date.issued2019-02-02
dc.description.abstractThe study assessed the economic performance of marketable ecosystem services (ES) (biomass production) and non-marketable ecosystem services and dis-services (groundwater, nutrient loss, soil loss, carbon sequestration, pollination deficit) in 11 contrasting European landscapes dominated by agroforestry land use compared to business as usual agricultural practice. The productivity and profitability of the farming activities and the associated ES were quantified using environmental modelling and economic valuation. After accounting for labour and machinery costs the financial value of the outputs of Mediterranean agroforestry systems tended to be greater than the corresponding agricultural system; but in Atlantic and Continental regions the agricultural system tended to be more profitable. However, when economic values for the associated ES were included, the relative profitability of agroforestry increased. Agroforestry landscapes: (i) were associated to reduced externalities of pollution from nutrient and soil losses, and (ii) generated additional benefits from carbon capture and storage and thus generated an overall higher economic gain. Our findings underline how a market system that includes the values of broader ES would result in land use change favouring multifunctional agroforestry. Imposing penalties for dis-services or payments for services would reflect their real world prices and would make agroforestry a more financially profitable system.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationKay S, Graves A, Palma JHN, et al., (2019) Agroforestry is paying off – Economic evaluation of ecosystem services in European landscapes with and without agroforestry systems. Ecosystem Services, Volume 36, April 2019, Article number 100896en_UK
dc.identifier.issn2212-0416
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2019.100896
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/13883
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherElsevieren_UK
dc.relation.ispartofseries
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectBiomass productionen_UK
dc.subjectCarbon storageen_UK
dc.subjectSoil lossen_UK
dc.subjectExternal costen_UK
dc.subjectNutrient lossen_UK
dc.subjectPollination deficiten_UK
dc.titleAgroforestry is paying off – Economic evaluation of ecosystem services in European landscapes with and without agroforestry systemsen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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