The challenges of producing coffee sustainably while maintaining good yields go far beyond financial considerations.

Forests offer farmers a specialized area for growing all kinds of crops. Mushrooms are excellent in forest farming systems, ...

Agroforestry is the intentional integration of trees into crop and livestock farming systems. It is not a new concept; many ...

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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 ...

Researchers from the University of Rhode Island are transforming a sod farm into silvopasture — a type of agroforestry system that integrates trees and livestock — and learning many valuable lessons ...

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 ...

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 ...

Research published in the journal Conservation Letters highlights the importance of considering land-use history when evaluating the role that agroforestry plays in sustainability and conservation ...