“There’s nothing more simple or effective than a tree for sinking carbon, especially in places where we’ve been killing soils and releasing carbon for a long time,” enthuses Kaitie Adams. As director ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jack Ray’s approach to farming — one that includes agroforestry, foraging and free ranging and pasture-raised chickens — at ...

MADISON, WI, JUNE 24, 2009 -- Creating consumer markets for forest-grown products, reducing nonpoint source pollution, protecting waterfowl habitat, diversifying farm operations—these are just a few ...

Increased use of trees in agriculture can pave the way toward a transformation of the global food system, according to a new study released in May. Scientists have found that even small incremental ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Investments in agroforestry systems are growing along with the recognition that this model of farming is climate-friendly, environmentally ...

Organisers of the fourth annual Agroforestry Open Weekend are expecting a surge of interest from farmers, with agroforestry set to receive targeted payments in England under the Sustainable Farming ...

Agroforestry might consist of faster-growing broad-leaved species than already exist on the farm, or productive tree species, such as fruit and nut, that can be used in a juicing diversification or ...

The UK has been slow to embrace agroforestry, fearing trees compete for valuable space and water. In fact they can increase crop diversity as well as profits, as two pioneering Cambridgeshire farmers ...

Agroforestry will help farmers comply with environmental conditionality measures for receiving EU payments, writes Diarmuid Cohalan. In France, agroforestry has become extremely popular, especially ...

Wakelyns needs £1.2m to save its diverse organic crops and ‘micro’ enterprises including a bakery and honeybee hives ...

Creating consumer markets for forest-grown products, reducing nonpoint source pollution, protecting waterfowl habitat, diversifying farm operations—these are just a few of the ways agroforestry is ...