As climate disruption collides with a worsening water emergency, scientists are pointing to a solution that has been hiding ...
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 ...
Trees Forever will host workshops and field days to show how agroforestry can protect soil and water through mid-2028.
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The diversity and ecological functionality of bird communities in tropical agroforestry systems are shaped by the surrounding landscape, in particular the extent and composition of the forest. An ...
The College of Natural Resources and Environment at Virginia Tech is part of a $60 million, five-year grant led by The Nature Conservancy for a project titled "Expanding Agroforestry Production and ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. “There is a windfall of federal money entering the agroforestry sector. After 30-plus years of work on agroforestry in the United States, the ...
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 ...
Trees can be combined with livestock and pasture. The trees can be managed for timber and other tree crops while at the same time providing shade and shelter for livestock. Every other Friday, the ...
Researchers have established coefficients for carbon storage in the soil and aboveground and belowground biomass of different agroforestry systems. Agroforestry systems have the capacity to store ...
Southern Ethiopia has long been a stronghold of an ecologically sound version of agriculture, agroforestry, which yields food and medicine crops year round while benefiting a diversity of wild species ...