Seminar: Soil health indicators in agroforestration of grasslands

Where local ecological knowledge, policy designs and science-based analysis align restoration of functions in healthy landscapes is possible. Farmer-led agroforestation can, with external co-investment, transform grass/fern fallows into productive farms. Belowground changes are slower and more complex than aboveground restoration and may involve the water and carbon cycle and earthworm density. Decline and recovery of microbial biomass C and N indicated change in soil health in an assessment of a program in W Sumatra (Indonesia).