Reading time: 2 minutes Modern agroforestry restorations of traditional systems. Agroforestry map of Hawaiian Islands. Efforts to understand traditional agriculture have focused on the most intensive ...

URBANA, Ill. -- There’s a longstanding attitude in many farming communities that trees and agriculture don’t mix. But agroforestry — the intentional integration of trees and shrubs in agricultural ...

Planting woody plant species alongside crops could double the number of insect pollinators helping farmers produce food, new research has demonstrated for the first time. The study, led by the ...

FOR a young person looking at a piece of land, a tree may appear to be a long-term investment whose returns are years away.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Rubber plantations have been a main historical cause of tropical deforestation, and are generally responsible for a range of environmental and ...

Converting Hawaiʻi’s unused agricultural lands to agroforestry systems could significantly boost carbon storage on land while providing multiple benefits to local communities, according to a study by ...

Emerging evidence indicates that, at roughly 1 billion hectares of land coverage worldwide, agroforestry offers a tremendous opportunity to store carbon — up to 34.2 petagrams of carbon — the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Investments in agroforestry systems are growing along with the recognition that this model of farming is climate-friendly, environmentally ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Alberto Oppata grows cocoa, black pepper, açaí, peach palm and pitaya on his 100 hectare farm in Tomé-Açu, in ...

Introduction to Agroforestry Seventy percent of the total UK land area is farmed and there is a growing pressure on this land area not only to produce food but also to help tackle climate change, ...

There's a longstanding attitude in many farming communities that trees and agriculture don't mix. But agroforestry—the intentional integration of trees and shrubs in agricultural systems, such as ...