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

Coffee, as both a critical economic commodity and a model for plant resilience, exhibits a complex biology that underpins its global significance. The two major cultivated species, Coffea arabica and ...

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 ADB report shows that agroforestry, combining trees with crops and livestock is a practical, nature-based solution that ...

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 ...

This working paper highlights the role of agroforestry in building climate resilience by restoring degraded landscapes and creating multifunctional and sustainable systems that connect nature, ...

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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 ...

As the world’s third-largest coffee producer and a nation that has been growing the popular Arabica variety since 1870, there’s not much that Colombia doesn’t know about growing the crop. In some ...

Global capital chasing sustainable agriculture is quietly circling Nigeria, not for traditional row crops but for ...

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 ...