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In Indonesia, these pressures are intense. Expanding palm oil plantations, logging, mining, and increasingly frequent fires ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Agroforestry is an agricultural technique that combines growing trees alongside shrubs, crops and livestock in a system that produces food, ...
A new University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign study integrates social, economic, and environmental factors in a new mapping tool that plots suitability for agroforestry practices, like the alley ...
Farming communities in the western Ugandan highlands of Butanda have for generations practiced agroforestry, intercropping fruit, grains and vegetables with medicinal plants, trees and grasses on ...
The stereotypical picture of American farmland probably looks a lot like this: rolling hills lined with rows upon rows of singular crops, perfectly spaced out for machinery to cultivate, harvest and ...
Trees Forever will host workshops and field days to show how agroforestry can protect soil and water through mid-2028.
The agroforestry is not only a source of protection of natural forest in the country but also provides significant economic benefits to growers. This was stated in a recent study conducted by the ...
A project of Silang (Cavite) farmers, it has been named 1:4 Pooc Agroforestry, a multi-storey cropping system. The system explains its name: 1 stands for one hectare and 4 for the number of crops ...
There's a longstanding attitude in many farming communities that trees and agriculture don't mix. But agroforestry can provide a multitude of benefits to farmers and landscapes. A new study provides a ...