Climate resilient agroforestry is expected to reduce the risks of crop failure due to drought and pest infestation, increase crop quantity and quality, diversify goods and commodities, improve the use ...

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 has been steadily gaining ground over the past eight years in the U.S., with the number of projects increasing 6% nationwide according to a new study. A federal funding freeze imposed on ...

In the Garhwal Himalayan region of India, traditional agroforestry systems are not just ancient practices but a delicate balance of nature's bounty and human ingenuity. A new study evaluates how these ...

Demand for agricultural land threatens Peninsular Malaysia’s remnant native forest cover, and with it, Malaysia’s rich bird life. A recent study has found that agroforestry and polyculture plantations ...

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 ...

Agroforestry is on the mind for Modern Farmer readers, who chimed in to ask for more coverage of how trees and shrubs can integrate into agricultural landscapes this year. As part of our recent ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Conventional farming can be hard on land: ...