Innovative planting designs for oil palm-based agroforestry
Despite its commercial success, intensive oil palm monoculture is facing both social and environmental constraints. Adapting the traditional plantation model towards more resilient and climate-smart farming systems will require deep changes. Agroforestry offers great potential for biodiversity and c...
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Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
2025
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/122680/1/122680.pdf http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/122680/ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10457-024-01124-1?error=cookies_not_supported&code=bd375d11-082d-4cf5-9337-7c6b5c68f4a0 |
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| Summary: | Despite its commercial success, intensive oil palm monoculture is facing both social and environmental constraints. Adapting the traditional plantation model towards more resilient and climate-smart farming systems will require deep changes. Agroforestry offers great potential for biodiversity and carbon storage benefits while maintaining high palm oil yields. The TRAILS multidisciplinary research project has installed a 39-ha prototype experiment in Sabah, Malaysia. The project includes different planting designs (interplanted rows, mixed tree plantation and forest islands) aimed at providing information about: i) the ability of oil palm to grow in competition with forest trees, ii) the best combination of tree species and their compatibility with the oil palm constraints for co-cultivation, and iii) the growth and developmental characteristics of a selected number of native forest species of interest. More specifically, we plan to describe changes in biodiversity and ecosystem services together with oil palm performance. |
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