Global Agroforestry News

An ancient agricultural system, agroforestry combines trees with shrubs, crops, and livestock in a system that produces food, supports biodiversity, builds soil horizons and water tables, and sequesters carbon from the atmosphere – this series explores how and where it is being practiced by Indigenous communities, traditional agriculturists, and new farmers.

Oil palms alone can be damaging; with other crops, the benefits abound

Farmers regreen Kenya’s drylands with agroforestry and an app

Mexico devises revolutionary method to reverse semiarid land degradation

New report provides road map for expanding chestnut agroforestry in the U.S.

Spanish farmers fight forest fires with agroforestry (and many sheep)

Climate, biodiversity & farmers benefit from rubber agroforestry: report

In Pennsylvania, agroforestry holds a key to cleaning up waterways and Chesapeake Bay

To save chocolate’s future, ‘start now and go big’ on agroforestry

How settlers, scientists, and a women-led industry saved Brazil’s rarest primate

Nuts about agroforestry in the U.S. Midwest: Can hazelnuts transform farming?

Can palm oil be grown sustainably? Agroforestry research suggests it can, and without chemicals

Agroforestry, an ancient climate solution that boosts food production and biodiversity

Indigenous agroforestry revives profitable palm trees and the Atlantic Forest

Gorongosa National Park is being reforested via coffee and agroforestry

Though forests burn, trees retake farmland globally as agroforestry advances

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

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

Silvopasturing improves ranches and the environment in Panama

Young farmers apply ancient agroforestry practices in the heart of Sardinia

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

$85 million initiative to scale up agroforestry in Africa announced

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

World Agroforestry Congress gathers huge group of global boosters in France

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

‘The ultimate agricultural practice’: Q&A with organizers of World Agroforestry Congress 2019

Agroforestry empowers Morocco’s mountain women

Agroforestry helps Tajikistan farmers overcome resource pressures

PNG farmers use agroforestry to fight crop diseases and reduce labor

Ethiopia: Khat farming threatens food security, biodiversity, women, and agroforestry

‘We see its value’: Ugandan communities benefiting from agroforestry

Agroforestry ‘home gardens’ build community resilience in southern Ethiopia

Smallholder farmers defy cocoa’s production model in Brazil

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