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Gorongosa National Park is being reforested via coffee and agroforestry

Erik Hoffner 15 Oct 2020

Indonesia’s food estate program eyes new plantations in forest frontiers

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Oct 2020

In Brazil’s Bahia, peasant farmers and cowboys keep the Cerrado alive

Caio de Freitas Paes 15 Sep 2020

Crisis in Venezuela: Non-governmental organizations adapt to survive

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 10 Sep 2020

Though forests burn, trees retake farmland globally as agroforestry advances

Patrick Worms 10 Aug 2020

In syntropic agriculture, farmers stop fighting nature and learn to embrace it

Sandra Weiss 30 Jul 2020
Alley cropping is a common form of agroforestry, combining annual crops like hay, grains, or vegetables with long rows of useful fruit or fodder trees. Image courtesy of Caney Fork Farms.

Investors say agroforestry isn’t just climate friendly — it’s also profitable

Stephanie Hanes 8 Jul 2020

Colombian farmers, ranchers join businesses to turn the tide on Amazon deforestation

Dimitri Selibas 12 Jun 2020

Better wines among the pines: Agroforestry can climate-proof grapes, French researchers show

Erik Hoffner 3 Jun 2020

How coffee growers can adapt to a precipitous industry: Q&A with Dean’s Beans founder Dean Cycon

Justin Catanoso 1 Jun 2020
Shade grown coffee in Nicaragua. Image courtesy ICRAF/World Agroforestry

Faced with a health crisis, a plea for trees and agroforestry (commentary)

Emmanuel Torquebiau et al 28 May 2020

Ecuador’s Kichwa implement innovative approach to rainforest conservation

Matthew Wilburn King 20 May 2020

Disaster interrupted: How you can help save the insects

Liz Kimbrough 15 May 2020
Odielca Solis has built a silvopasture system at her farm in Panama, which provides shade and forage to her cattle and fruit for her family. Image by Erin Banks Rusby for Mongabay.

Silvopasturing improves ranches and the environment in Panama

Erin Banks Rusby 29 Apr 2020

Positive ways forward for chocolate industry tainted by deforestation and child labor (commentary)

Marianne Martinet 15 Apr 2020

Averting an agricultural and ecological crisis in the Philippines’ salad bowl

Karlston Lapniten 13 Mar 2020

Economists, conservationists, political leaders urge adoption of carbon tax to halt tropical deforestation

Mongabay.com 13 Feb 2020

Success of Microsoft’s ‘moonshot’ climate pledge hinges on forest conservation

Justin Catanoso 3 Feb 2020

Young farmers apply ancient agroforestry practices in the heart of Sardinia

Monica Pelliccia 29 Jan 2020

Madagascar’s bold reforestation goal lacks a coherent plan, experts say

Malavika Vyawahare 22 Nov 2019

Agroforestry program in Appalachia receives $590,000 in federal funding

Erik Hoffner 21 Nov 2019

$85 million initiative to scale up agroforestry in Africa announced

Erik Hoffner 24 Oct 2019

Restoring Sumatra’s Leuser Ecosystem, one small farm at a time

Junaidi Hanafiah 30 Sep 2019

How rubber farmers can reduce risk and help the environment (commentary)

Arlene Chang 6 Sep 2019

Agroforestry: An ancient ‘indigenous technology’ with wide modern appeal (commentary)

Erik Hoffner 15 Jul 2019
Ca phe sua da on sale for 65 cents from a cart on the side of the road near Ho Chi Minh City's downtown. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Innovative methods could transform Vietnam’s robusta farms into carbon sinks

Michael Tatarski 13 Jun 2019

World Agroforestry Congress gathers huge group of global boosters in France

Erik Hoffner 21 May 2019

Coops, community, and agroforestry: Q&A with coffee entrepreneur Dean Cycon

Erik Hoffner 13 May 2019

When losing your soil means losing your livelihood (commentary)

Sophie Erfurth 3 May 2019

Deforested habitats leave migratory birds ill-prepared for journey north

Ashley Stumvoll 15 Apr 2019

Natural forests best bet for fighting climate change, analysis finds

Malavika Vyawahare 9 Apr 2019

On a wing and a prayer? Evidence for ways to conserve bats (commentary)

Claire Wordley 5 Apr 2019

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