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. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Facts
Practice Class OriginTraditional in tropical farming systems worldwide; named and formalized as a discipline in the 1970s 1 Connections
Associated With
Cacao, Crops Cacao is classically grown as an understory shade crop within agroforestry systems in its native tropical range.
Coffee, Crops Shade-grown coffee agroforestry is a widely documented traditional and sustainable cultivation practice.
The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) is the CGIAR center dedicated specifically to agroforestry research.
In Discipline
Source Agroforestry (Wikipedia)
Sources
1. Agroforestry (Wikipedia)
Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.
Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.