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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brian Nicholson from Johnstown, Co Kilkenny has planted over 6,500 trees on 19ha (47ac) of his farm under the DAFM ...

Homeokahalu’u Farm received the Agroforester of the Year award from the Kona Soil and Water Conservation District in 2014. The award represented 10 years of hard work by Angelica Stevens and her ...

Agroforestry is attracting a lot of attention from policy makers, environmentalists and farmers seeking new opportunities. Environmentally, the benefits are well recorded. The Woodland Trust’s Farming ...

In Kenya’s Rift Valley, rural communities are implementing agroforestry to boost incomes and forest cover. Native plants like enset, a type of wild banana, and trees are being cultivated in ...