Trees should be in every farmer’s toolbox. They boost productivity, resilience and the health of the environment – with no need to trade off with production. If you’re looking to plant lots of trees, ...

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 ...

Agroforestry is on the mind for Modern Farmer readers, who chimed in to ask for more coverage of how trees and shrubs can integrate into agricultural landscapes this year. As part of our recent ...

Agroforestry systems—land-use practices that deliberately integrate trees, shrubs or woody perennials with crops and/or livestock—are gaining prominence as both a climate change adaptation and ...

Agroforestry integrates trees, shrubs, and crops in a system that functions well together — it covers over 1 billion hectares of land worldwide and its best known examples include shade grown coffee ...

“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 ...

Agroecology is an applied science and a practice that uses ecological concepts and principles to achieve more harmonious, synergistic interactions between people and the environment in landscapes ...

Agroforestry encompasses land-use systems in which woody perennials are deliberately combined with crops and/or livestock to create multifunctional landscapes. These systems deliver a suite of ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Conventional farming can be hard on land: ...

Climate resilient agroforestry is expected to reduce the risks of crop failure due to drought and pest infestation, increase crop quantity and quality, diversify goods and commodities, improve the use ...