FOREST-AGRICULTURE INTERFACE PRODUCTION SYSTEM
This system is characterised by the co-existence of these two different land-use patterns or habitat types.
Co-existence can be spatial - for example, agricultural practices at forest margins and pockets of agriculture with
forest
areas (or vice versa) - or they may be temporal, where habitat/land-use patterns
have changed (or may change) within relatively short timescales, and where
the legacy of previous patterns of land use may influence sustainability of
subsequent patterns - for example, agricultural production systems on land
previously under natural forest in the humid forest belt in West Africa.
'Interfaces' are those areas where different production systems merge to
create regions in which the influences of each can be identified. An interface
is not a distinct boundary or dividing line, but is best defined as ' a region
of influence'. There are particular environmental/resource management pressures
and socioeconomic pressures in these regions.
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