Nice idea as sustainable agriculture is need of the hour to feed over increasing population

Sounds like a fun project. Since I'm currently working on a lot of trade-off stuff, land-sharing vs. land-sparing was at the top of my mind (sounds like you are taking a very clear side with this project!) [1,2]. Not sure what your focus is, but from an optimization perspective, I recently came across a couple of cool studies from TUM involving agroforestry in Panama [3,4].

Instinctively (and without knowing anything about your project), I'm a little skeptical of the idea of this kind of protocol being adaptable to any region. Speaking of trade-offs, it feels like there must be some between generality and usefulness. You may get some kind of sustained-yield marketable timber with intercropping in 30 years at some latitudes, but it's harder to imagine in northern Sweden—nothing wrong with having a protocol that's more oriented toward certain socio-ecological restoration contexts than others.

Good luck!

[1] Loconto, A., Desquilbet, M., Moreau, T., Couvet, D., & Dorin, B. (2020). The land sparing–land sharing controversy: Tracing the politics of knowledge. Land Use Policy, 96, 103610.

[2] Meli, P., Rey-Benayas, J. M., & Brancalion, P. H. (2019). Balancing land sharing and sparing approaches to promote forest and landscape restoration in agricultural landscapes: Land approaches for forest landscape restoration. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, 17(4), 201-205.

[3] Reith, E., Gosling, E., Knoke, T., & Paul, C. (2020). How Much Agroforestry Is Needed to Achieve Multifunctional Landscapes at the Forest Frontier?—Coupling Expert Opinion with Robust Goal Programming. Sustainability, 12(15), 6077.

[4] Gosling, E., Reith, E., Knoke, T., Gerique, A., & Paul, C. (2020). Exploring farmer perceptions of agroforestry via multi-objective optimisation: a test application in Eastern Panama. Agroforestry Systems, 94(5), 2003-2020.

@ Paul Morris

An interesting topic and this reminds me of the say, ' Use it or lose it' in the course Agrobiodiversity. When we try to feed the ever-increasing population, these negatively affect biodiversity. Indeed, there is a need to search for possible options like Agrofofestry/Agrobiodiversity land-use systems.