Agroforestry could play an important role in mitigating climate change because it sequesters more atmospheric carbon in plant parts and soil than conventional farming, according to researchers.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Silvopastoral systems and agroforestry practices represent integrated land‐use approaches that combine trees with pasture and crops to achieve more resilient and sustainable agricultural production.

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 ...

Bathinda: In a bid to amplify agroforestry’s contribution in India, the Centre for International Forestry ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract One of the greatest challenges in crop science worldwide is to generate a balance between crop production and environmental preservation.

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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 ...