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 ...

As the numbers of trees in forests continue to decline, the number of trees on farms is increasing. Speaking at the High Level Dialogue of UNFF9 on February 3, 2011, Garrity said, Dennis Garrity, the ...

Farmers could turn more of the UK's farmland into productive agroforestry systems if they had access to trusted advice and real farm examples, according to new research from the University of Reading.

In Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh, farmers have stopped waiting for the monsoon to behave. For years, erratic rainfall and rising temperatures pushed many smallholders into cycles of debt and ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Agroforestry is recognized as a way to boost local biodiversity, improve soils and diversify farming incomes. New research suggests it may also ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Cocoa production in Côte d’Ivoire began in the 1950s in forests bordering Ghana, and progressively shifted west as trees were removed and soil ...

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