Global Agroforestry News

An ancient agricultural system, agroforestry combines trees with shrubs, crops, and livestock in a system that produces food, supports biodiversity, builds soil horizons and water tables, and sequesters carbon from the atmosphere – this series explores how and where it is being practiced by Indigenous communities, traditional agriculturists, and new farmers.

Rio’s grassroots agroforestry sustains birds, bees & communities

Agroforestry offers Thai rubber farmers a pathway to profit and sustainability

How agroecological cacao can save an endangered lion tamarin in southern Bahia

Shade-grown coffee benefits birds, forests & people in Venezuela

Agroforestry project sows seeds of hope in drought-hit Honduras

‘Another catastrophe’: Flooding destroys Indigenous agroforestry projects in Peru’s Amazon

New U.S. agroforestry project will pay farmers to expand ‘climate-smart’ acres

Breadfruit’s low carbon storage could be offset by fast growth, study finds

Nile Basin farmers grow food forests to restore wetlands and bring back a turtle

Indigenous Zenú turn to ancestral seeds, agroecology to climate-proof their farming

Sumatra coffee farmers brew natural fertilizer as inflation bites

Can agroforestry chocolate help save the world’s most endangered rainforest?

Study: Tall trees and shade boost bat diversity on Africa’s cocoa farms

Breadfruit: A starchy, delicious climate and biodiversity solution

Forests & Finance: Agroforestry in Cameroon and reforestation in South Africa

For Dutch farming crisis, agroforestry offers solutions: Q&A with Lennart Fuchs & Marc Buiter

Trees with edible leaves can boost human nutrition: New book, free download

Colombia’s ‘tree of life’ births a new culinary and conservation movement

‘One of our greatest climate solutions’: Q&A with the U.S. National Agroforestry Center’s new director

How agroforestry can restore degraded lands and provide income in the Amazon

Can a luxury chocolate company help a Congolese forest?

American agroforestry accelerates with new funding announcements

Pioneer agroforester Ermi, 73, rolls back the years in Indonesia’s Gorontalo

Regenerative agriculture in Mexico boosts yields while restoring nature

Return to agroforestry empowers women in Nepal

Indigenous agroforestry dying of thirst amid a sea of avocados in Mexico

In oil palm-dominated Malaysia, agroforestry orchards are oases of bird life: Study

Community empowerment and forest conservation grow from the galip nut in Papua New Guinea

Brazil’s agroforestry farmers report many benefits, but challenges remain

In China, agroforestry serves up tea with a spoonful of sustainability

Inga tree points to way out of slash-and-burn for Central American farmers

For Costa Rica’s Indigenous Bribri women, agroforestry is an act of resistance and resilience

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