In a field of bare red dirt in São Paulo state, Paula Costa is trying to turn back the clock. Five hundred years ago, this land was part of the Mata Atlantica, a dense, diverse rain forest that ...

The Asian Development Bank report shows that agroforestry—combining trees with crops and livestock—can restore degraded ...

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

Agroforestry integrates trees, shrubs, and crops in a system that functions well together — it covers over 1 billion hectares of land worldwide and its best known examples include shade grown coffee ...

Maxwell Ochoo’s first attempt at farming was a dismal failure. In Ochieng Odiere, a village near the shores of Kenya’s Lake Victoria, “getting a job is a challenge,” the 34-year-old says. To earn some ...

While growing crops under the canopy may not feed the world, it can help save forests from the axe. On a small piece of land alongside the Connecticut River in Massachusetts, Jono Neiger has planted ...

Though the large emitters of GHGs are known, many countries still remain reluctant to accept targets that meaningfully reduce emissions. With no country spared the effects of climate change, we are ...

Rubber plantations have been a main historical cause of tropical deforestation, and are generally responsible for a range of environmental and social ills. But rubber grown in agroforestry systems–in ...