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Günay Erpul - Özden Görücü - Atila Gül - Yusuf Güneş
Reşat Akgöz - Kenan İnce - Ünal Satı Yilmaz

CF takes into account climatic conditions, soil resources and topography to
maximise the benefit of land productivity dynamics. In ecosystems, economic
value is derived from biomass diversity, quantity and crop production. This
process is determined by the ‘practice-function-service-benefit-value’
sequence of land management. The Land Productivity Dynamics (LPM)
indicator provides analytical information on biophysical services and land cover
management and analyses the socioeconomic impacts of land productivity
and biomass production (Erpul et al., 2023).
SLM approaches must be planned in line with biophysical and socio-
economic objectives. With the aim of maintaining and increasing land
productivity, the process indicators such as land productivity and erosion
severity, which show negative trends, must be balanced with sustainable
soil management practices (ÇEM -General Directorate of Combating
Desertification and Erosion-, 2017, 2018). Thus, by planning and implementing
land management and afforestation activities in a way to contribute to
combating climate change, carbon sink function, conservation of biodiversity
and sustainable production can be encouraged.

3.1. CF Advantages and Disadvantages

CF Advantages

CF has many advantages: (COWI, Ecological Institute and IEEP, 2021).
1. Offering economic opportunities for landowners and investors by
encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship.
2. Increasing economic diversity by providing the opportunity to obtain
multi-purpose products.
3. Providing mixed system patterns that enhance ecosystem services
through the combination of trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants.
4. Having the potential to create employment for local people.
5. Playing an important role in combating climate change with its capacity
to sequester carbon in the long term.
6. Ensuring high credibility and attractiveness for buyers by establishing a
clearer link between payment and carbon impacts.
7. Enabling the unproductive and degraded lands to be made more
productive by planting and thus contributing to regional development.
8. Assuming an educational role by raising the awareness of local people.
9. Encouraging social solidarity by enhancing the culture of collective and
cooperative work.

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