Agroforestry can be described as a combination of agriculture and forestry. It is designed to maximize yield from the land, especially in areas with limited space. Forest farming, one of the six ...

Forests offer farmers a specialized area for growing all kinds of crops. Mushrooms are excellent in forest farming systems, ...

Senate Agriculture Chair Debbie Stabenow’s framework promotes farming and tree-raising. A more modest proposal is emerging in the House. Farming that puts crops, trees and sometimes animals all on the ...

We’re talking about the nuts again. It seems to be a perpetual topic of conversation within my group of about 15 neighbors: where to place the nut orchard. Some want to see the orchard planted on the ...

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 ...

I once rented a pasture that adjoined a yard containing two apple and two pear trees. Every fall when the fruit ripened, the loaded trees would drop any blemished fruit early. The homeowner hated ...

Monocultures of corn and soybeans carpet 75% of the U.S. Midwest, leading to soil erosion, water pollution, and massive greenhouse gas emissions. However, a new wave of farmers is breaking the ...

Benin’s smallholder dairy farmers need development finance to plant shady trees on the land where their cattle graze, to ...

Trees can be combined with livestock and pasture. The trees can be managed for timber and other tree crops while at the same time providing shade and shelter for livestock. Every other Friday, the ...

This article is authored by Manoj Dabas, country director-India, CIFOR-ICRAF (World Agroforestry) and Ravi Prabhu, senior ...

Southern Ethiopia has long been a stronghold of an ecologically sound version of agriculture, agroforestry, which yields food and medicine crops year round while benefiting a diversity of wild species ...