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August 29, 2026LandOpen Access

Environmental, Climatic, and Production Perspectives in Agroforestry Research: Reassessing the Position of Rural Livelihoods Through Bibliometric Analysis

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JUJuan Urdánigo-ZambranoBTBolier TorresUniversidad Estatal AmazónicaCDCarmen De-Pablos-Heredero

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Bibliometric analysis reveals limited conceptual autonomy for rural livelihoods in global agroforestry research, indicating environmental and production priorities overshadow human well-being.

Key Points

  • To evaluate the temporal evolution, conceptual structure, and geographical distribution of global agroforestry research and assess the conceptual autonomy of rural livelihoods.
  • Conducted a bibliometric review of 5,713 Scopus-indexed journal articles published between 1976 and 2025 across four thematic domains: biodiversity/conservation, climate-carbon-soil, production/silvopastoral-agronomic, and livelihoods/socioeconomic.
  • Applied Multiple Correspondence Analysis, semantic normalization of author keywords, Sankey mapping, chord diagrams, domain proportion tests, and chi-square tests.
  • Climate-carbon-soil and production/silvopastoral-agronomic domains accounted for the largest proportional contributions in the expanding literature.
  • Rural livelihoods failed to establish an autonomous conceptual domain, remaining integrated within a broader socioecological and conservation cluster.
  • Livelihood and socioeconomic topics were significantly more prevalent in publications focusing on Africa, Asia, and lower-middle- or low-income settings.

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Urdánigo-Zambrano et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9298d38e5d7d1fc0c1098dhttps://doi.org/10.3390/land15091571
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