Benin’s smallholder dairy farmers need development finance to plant shady trees on the land where their cattle graze, to ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

By Morkporkpor Anku Accra, Jan. 29, GNA – Professor Irene S. Egyir, Ghana Focal Person for the Galileo Project, has said efforts were underway to strengthen rural livelihoods and build resilience to ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Woodland Trust works closely with farmers to integrate trees into your farm business. When planning your tree planting, the guidance below can provide ideas and designs to meet your objectives. A ...