Emerging evidence indicates that, at roughly 1 billion hectares of land coverage worldwide, agroforestry offers a tremendous opportunity to store carbon — up to 34.2 petagrams of carbon — the ...

Farmers could turn more of the UK's farmland into productive agroforestry systems if they had access to trusted advice and real farm examples, according to new research from the University of Reading.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Rubber plantations have been a main historical cause of tropical deforestation, and are generally responsible for a range of environmental and ...

Your institution does not have access to this book on JSTOR. Try searching on JSTOR for other items related to this book. Realising the potential of agroforestry: integrating research and development ...

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 ...

There's a longstanding attitude in many farming communities that trees and agriculture don't mix. But agroforestry—the intentional integration of trees and shrubs in agricultural systems, such as ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Researchers asked agroforestry and conventional smallholder farmers in São Paulo state, Brazil for their views on the benefits of agroforestry — a ...

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 ...

Agroforestry – the integration of trees and shrubs with crops and livestock systems – has strong potential in addressing problems of food insecurity in developing countries. Done well, it allows ...

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: ...