Homeokahalu’u Farm received the Agroforester of the Year award from the Kona Soil and Water Conservation District in 2014. The award represented 10 years of hard work by Angelica Stevens and her ...

Farmers could turn more of the UK's farmland into productive agroforestry systems if they had access to trusted advice and real farm examples, according to new research from the University of Reading.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“There’s nothing more simple or effective than a tree for sinking carbon, especially in places where we’ve been killing soils and releasing carbon for a long time,” enthuses Kaitie Adams. As director ...

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Cocoa production in Côte d’Ivoire began in the 1950s in forests bordering Ghana, and progressively shifted west as trees were removed and soil exhausted. Côte d’Ivoire lost 217,866 hectares of ...

Food energy production — the total calories produced from farmland for consumption — could fall by up to 45% if agroforestry were widely adopted across the UK.

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 ...