Practices

Agroforestry

AG-roh-FOR-ist-ree

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General Reference

Agriculture and Farming Atlas. "Agroforestry." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/practices/agroforestry.

APA Style

Agriculture and Farming Atlas. (n.d.). Agroforestry. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/practices/agroforestry

BibTeX

@misc{agricultureandfarmingatlas-agroforestry,
  author = {Agriculture and Farming Atlas},
  title = {Agroforestry},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/practices/agroforestry},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Farming with trees on purpose: crops or pasture grown among or beside woody perennials, so the trees shelter, feed and hold the soil while yielding fruit, fodder or timber of their own. Shade-grown coffee under a forest canopy and windbreak rows across wheat plains are both agroforestry.

Facts

Practice Class

Integrated land use 1

Origin

Traditional in tropical farming systems worldwide; named and formalized as a discipline in the 1970s 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

In Discipline

Agroecology

Source Agroforestry (Wikipedia)

Sources

1. Agroforestry (Wikipedia)

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1. Agroforestry (Wikipedia)

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