International Journal of Agriculture, Environment and Biotechnology Citation: IAEB: 14(04): 521-533, December 2021 DOI: 10.30954/0974-1712.04.2021.6 AgrIculturAl EcOnOmIcs How to cite this article: Singh, V., Johar, V., Kumar, R. and Chaudhary, M. 2021. Socio-economic and Environmental Assets Sustainability by Agroforestry Systems: A Review. Int. J. Ag. Env. Biotech., 14(04): 521- 533. Source of Support: None; Conflict of Interest: None ASSOCIATION FOR AGRICULTURE ENVIRONMENT AND BIOTECHNOLOGY A A E B Socio-economic and Environmental Assets Sustainability by Agroforestry Systems: A Review Vikram Singh 1 , Vishal Johar 1 *, Rupender Kumar 2 and Mukesh Chaudhary 2 1 Department of Horticulture, School of Agriculture, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, India 2 Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, School of Agriculture, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, India *Correspondence author: vishal.26021@lpu.co.in (ORCID ID: 0000-0002-5639-1771) Paper No. 940 Received: 20-09-2021 Revised: 26-11-2021 Accepted: 16-12-2021 ABSTRACT Agroforestry has a long history in ancient times, and it has been widespread everywhere until now. Agroforestry systems with native trees as well as introduced trees provide an exciting illustration in which sustainability, regulatory, habitat, provisional, and other environment pairs are at the same time exploited. In the present review study, the potential of the agroforestry system to optimize diferent socioeconomic returns like food, fuelwood, fodder, fber, timber, non-timber forest products, and additional income, etc. Potential of agroforestry system in the farm of environment services protect soil erosion, bioenergy, afects to carbon fxing, diversify agricultural landscapes with trees, sustainable land management practice, control of pests by their natural enemies and habitat of biological diversity in the world. The review indicates that the nation’s cultivators should be awake and aware of agroforestry system possibilities and competence, and these growers should contribute in developing the cultivation of agroforestry system viable as economically returns as well as environmentally returns for world farmers. To increase tree cover areas of the world out of the total geographical areas, the agroforestry system has the competence to provide a faster rate of tree farms increment according to forest policies for the sustainable livelihood of the farmers. HIGHLIGHTS m Agroforestry systems impact positively on ecology and environment. m Agroforestry systems have a reversible relationship with livelihood and biodiversity in multi- functional landscapes. Keywords: Agroforestry, environment, socio-economic, biodiversity, and livelihood The National Agroforestry Policy (2014) defines agroforestry as a combination of land-use systems which combines trees and shrubs on farmlands and rural landscapes with or without livestock to enhance productivity, proftability, diversity, and ecosystem sustainability. In India, forestry and agroforestry land are about 69.79 (FSI, 2013) and 25 Mha (Dhanya et al. 2013) respectively, out of the total existing geographical area of 305.60 Mha. Agroforestry helps in Carbon stocking is about 532.5 Mt. Further, the scatered trees are accessible in a farm feld and feld bunds. Agroforestry helps to secure C stock availability is half of the C stock present in the forests, and recent Studies show that area under agroforestry will increase signifcantly in the future in India(NRCAF, 2006). There were many studies that found that the agroforestry system is an awe-inspiring technique of carbon sequestration, and the efcient role was storing carbon biomass above ground (Mukherjee et al. 2015) and also for storing the carbon biomass bin below the ground