The U.S. Department of Agriculture defines agroforestry as a farming practice that covers four “I” goals: intentional, intensive, integration and interactive. There are five types of agroforestry in ...

“There’s nothing more simple or effective than a tree for sinking carbon, especially in places where we’ve been killing soils and releasing carbon for a long time,” enthuses Kaitie Adams. As director ...

Cows graze in the shade of a silvopasture, an example of agroforestry, that UNH researchers visited this summer to conduct field assessments to help inform the design of the new agroforestry systems ...

The Nature Conservancy is leading the Expanding Agroforestry Project to provide training, planning and funds for 12,140 hectares (30,000 acres) of new agroforestry plantings in the U.S. Goals for the ...

Additional Multimedia Cocoa plantation: the farmers use an agroforestry system meaning that different types of trees are planted next to the cocoa trees. The researchers investigated the benefits of ...

Demand for agricultural land threatens Peninsular Malaysia’s remnant native forest cover, and with it, Malaysia’s rich bird life. A recent study has found that agroforestry and polyculture plantations ...