Agroforestry is a word that probably won’t cause many people to rise to their feet in acknowledgment of its vitality. Nevertheless, it holds the promise of entirely reshaping landscapes, mitigating ...

By planting and nurturing trees on farms, the nation can empower its farmers, strengthen its economy and safeguard its ...

Rubber plantations have been a main historical cause of tropical deforestation, and are generally responsible for a range of environmental and social ills. But rubber grown in agroforestry systems–in ...

The Asian Development Bank report shows that agroforestry—combining trees with crops and livestock—can restore degraded ...

At the Food as Medicine Summit in Chicago, surrounded by leaders in healthcare, food systems and policy, one topic stood out to me as both quietly revolutionary and urgently relevant: agroforestry. It ...

The diversity and ecological functionality of bird communities in tropical agroforestry systems are shaped by the surrounding landscape, in particular the extent and composition of the forest. An ...

About one-quarter of the United States’ land cover, excluding Alaska, is farmed–some 430 million to 500 million acres. A massive new project has just assessed this and other food-producing ...

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1. Avian ecosystem services such as the suppression of pests are considered to be of high ecological and economic importance in a range of ecosystems, especially in tropical agroforestry. However, how ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Agroforestry, or forest gardening, is the practice of growing of trees, shrubs, herbs, and vegetables together in a group mimicking a forest, or ...