A new study by Dr. Zoe Hastings (WRRC Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Life Sciences, UHM), Dr. Tamara Ticktin (Professor, School of Life Sciences), Dr. Leah Bremer (UHERO and WRRC Faculty Researcher), Maile Wong (WRRC undergraduate researcher), and Kanekoa Kukea-Schultz (Kākoʻo ʻŌiwi) draws on data from the community-based Puʻulani agroforestry restoration project in Heʻeia, Oʻahu to demonstrate the high potential of agroforestry as a mechanism to restore fallow agricultural lands. Their collective work demonstrates the multiple social, cultural, and ecological benefits of biocultural restoration of these systems that were historically abundant in Hawaiʻi prior to European colonization.
See also a recent publication in Conservation Science and Practice, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, and Agriculture.