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 ...

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 ...

The Amazon Rainforest generates its own weather. Each day, the forest’s 390 billion trees release approximately 20 billion metric tons of water vapor into the atmosphere through evapotranspiration, ...

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Orangutan populations in Indonesia are showing signs of recovery, and scientists say sustainable coffee agroforestry is playing a key role in protecting rainforest habitats and restoring biodiversity.

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 ...

Preta Terra’s agroforestry project, left, beside a monoculture farm, in Timburi, Brazil, on March 29. Preta Terra’s agroforestry project, left, beside a monoculture farm, in Timburi, Brazil, on March ...

As the world’s third-largest coffee producer and a nation that has been growing the popular Arabica variety since 1870, there’s not much that Colombia doesn’t know about growing the crop. In some ...

As climate volatility deepens, farm margins narrow and cities expand at speed, India is reassessing how land is used and valued. Agroforestry ...