Abstract Agroforestry is reputed for the plethora of ecosystem services it provides including provisioning, regulating, supporting, and providing cultural services. Although agroforestry provides numerous ecosystem services, most research has focused on a few of these services namely the role played by agroforestry in the provision of food, fuelwood, fodder, income, as well as carbon sequestration, grossly neglecting the role of agroforestry in water regulation. This paper, which is based on an