AGROFORESTRY
A pathway to a viable world
Transforming lives and landscapes with trees
Agroforestry is the ‘future of global land use’. With continuing pressure on natural forests, agroforestry is increasingly stepping in to provide not only agricultural products but many of the ecosystem functions provided by forests, but on agricultural land. More than simply ‘agriculture with trees’, agroforestry is an agroecological approach that involves farmers, livestock, trees and forests from household through to landscape scales.
With 40% of the world’s land degraded to one degree or another, agroforestry is leading the race to restore healthy functions. Trees bring nutrients to weary soils, provide habitat for the microorganisms that manage the nutrients, manage the watertable with their roots and provide shade, food, fuel, materials and income for farmers.
Learn more about how CIFOR-ICRAF’s approach addresses the complex interactions between people and ecological systems through a holistic systems approach.
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