The Amazon Rainforest generates its own weather. Each day, the forest’s 390 billion trees release approximately 20 billion metric tons of water vapor into the atmosphere through evapotranspiration, ...

Agroforestry is recognized as a way to boost local biodiversity, improve soils and diversify farming incomes. New research suggests it may also benefit nearby forests by reducing pressure to clear ...

A sustainable agriculture project that incentivizes farmers to plant trees on their land is taking applications from Wisconsin producers. Organizers for the Expanding Agroforestry Project say it ...

Planting woody plant species alongside crops could double the number of insect pollinators helping farmers produce food, new research has demonstrated for the first time. The study, led by the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Alberto Oppata grows cocoa, black pepper, açaí, peach palm and pitaya on his 100 hectare farm in Tomé-Açu, in ...

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A new Newcastle University study has highlighted actions that could be used to increase tree cover on farmed land in the North East. Led by Dr. Marion Pfeifer and Ph.D. researcher Eleanor Moore, the ...

Introduction to Agroforestry Seventy percent of the total UK land area is farmed and there is a growing pressure on this land area not only to produce food but also to help tackle climate change, ...

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 ...