The practice of having trees on farms simulates nature. This aligns with our heritage farming, enriching the ecosystem’s biodiversity with trees complementary to crops. The loss of biodiversity in ...

The UK has been slow to embrace agroforestry, fearing trees compete for valuable space and water. In fact they can increase crop diversity as well as profits, as two pioneering Cambridgeshire farmers ...

“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 ...

NEW DELHI: The Central Government has introduced model rules aimed at promoting agroforestry on agricultural land, with the goal of improving the business environment for farmers involved in tree ...

Coffee bushes in a shade-grown plantation in the Andes, Ecuador. Morley Read/Shutterstock “Agroforestry” – the practice of having trees as part of farms – is as old as agriculture itself. But as a ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The new director of the U.S. National Agroforestry Center (NAC) received her doctorate in plant physiological ecology/ecosystem ecology and a ...

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 ...

BENGALURU: Following the NITI Aayog Report - Greening and Restoration of Wasteland with Agroforestry (GROW), Karnataka is assessing the area under agroforestry, and the report will be shared with the ...