There's a longstanding attitude in many farming communities that trees and agriculture don't mix. But agroforestry can provide a multitude of benefits to farmers and landscapes. A new study provides a ...

I once rented a pasture that adjoined a yard containing two apple and two pear trees. Every fall when the fruit ripened, the loaded trees would drop any blemished fruit early. The homeowner hated ...

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, ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The new director of the U.S. National Agroforestry Center (NAC) received her doctorate in plant physiological ecology/ecosystem ecology and a ...

Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh plan to launch state-specific agroforestry policies to include tree-based farming as a driver of sustainable economic growth.

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 ...

The European Agroforestry Federation (EURAF) is urging for "policy coherence". With the release of draft EU Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming (CRCF) methodologies, EURAF is taking the opportunity to ...

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A new University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign study integrates social, economic, and environmental factors in a new mapping tool that plots suitability for agroforestry practices, like the alley ...

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers say strategic plans that integrate environmental, social and economic considerations are needed to expand agroforestry throughout the Midwest. A new ...