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CommunicationPublished on 6 November 2025

Classifying agricultural and plantation forestry ecosystems

These guidelines aim to facilitate improved knowledge of agricultural and plantation forestry ecosystems, and their relationship with other ecosystems in complex landscapes, by providing clarity on how the IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology is applied in the context of agricultural and plantation forestry production. This provides a foundation for a range of applications that can enable and support sustainable agriculture.

Guidelines for classifying agricultural and plantation forestry ecosystems in the IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology

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Simon Julien
IUCN Food and Agricultural Systems Team
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