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 ...

Agroforestry is an ancient agricultural technique being rediscovered all over the world as limitations of the globe’s highly industrialized agriculture become obvious. On the old and exhausted soils ...

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 ...

Agroforestry combines trees with traditional farming, and it has big benefits. Here’s how to help farmers plant more trees. Imagine making one change to a farm field so that as well as producing food, ...

In a step to promote agroforestry and streamline tree felling norms on agricultural lands, the Centre has notified a new set of model rules aimed at easing procedural hurdles for farmers, increasing ...

Maxwell Ochoo’s first attempt at farming was a dismal failure. In Ochieng Odiere, a village near the shores of Kenya’s Lake Victoria, “getting a job is a challenge,” the 34-year-old says. To earn some ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Conventional farming can be hard on land: ...

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The initiative generated more than 60,000 carbon credits from 160 demonstration farms. Typically, one carbon credit represents one tonne of CO₂ equivalent ...

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 ...