Agroforestry is a word that probably won’t cause many people to rise to their feet in acknowledgment of its vitality. Nevertheless, it holds the promise of entirely reshaping landscapes, mitigating ...

Silvopasture, a portmanteau of the Latin words "silva" (forest) and "pastura" (grazing), is a form of agroforestry that the U.S. Department of Agriculture describes as "the deliberate integration of ...

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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 ...

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 ...

It has many names: multi-story cropping, agroforestry, forest farming. All of these refer to farming within treed land. It’s a great way to seamlessly integrate the farm into the landscape and ...

It’s been reported that climate change is the reason for record high chocolate prices, but what’s received less attention is the root cause of the problem. Chocolate costs more now due to decades of ...

Recent months have delivered a harvest of agroforestry funding news in the U.S., just as the season’s remaining crops ripened. The announcement of $60 million in support from the Department of ...

Dharma Realm Buddhist University is hosting the return of the co-founders of Mama Food Forest- a regenerative agriculture ...

Agroforestry, a climate-resilient land management system, faces limited adoption in India despite its potential for increasing farmer income and reducing deforestation. The Indian government aims to ...

Growing coffee in agroforestry systems in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) supports 19 times higher biodiversity and stores twice as much carbon compared with monoculture systems, while ...