Agroforestry — the intentional integration of trees and shrubs in agricultural systems, such as planting trees as windbreaks, integrating trees on pastures, or growing tree crops intercropped ...

New Agroforestry Maps Plot Environmental, Social, and Economic Benefits of Trees Feb. 6, 2025 — There's a longstanding attitude in many farming communities that trees and agriculture don't mix.

The practice of incorporating trees into agriculture is known as agroforestry, and it has been practised for thousands of years in a number of variations. Some involve planting trees on existing ...

The study found that tree planting had higher carbon storage, but agroforestry brought benefits to the local community in terms of extra income and food security. Fire was the biggest reason why ...

The trees were selected by the World Agroforestry Center for their value to communities across Africa. Traditional seed preservation and institutional seed banks are vulnerable to damage.

And tree planting is something else that faces criticism for taking land out of food production. But in agroforestry systems, trees are planted alongside livestock or crops. We find out about a ...

As the profile of agroforestry accelerated ... it up to about 16% - Germany is already at 17.75% - but agroforestry can help increase tree cover while boosting food production." ...

There’s a longstanding attitude in many farming communities that trees and agriculture don’t mix. But agroforestry — the ...