"Alley cropping” is the agricultural practice of planting rows – or alleys – of trees in fields of crops. According to a new study by an international, multidisciplinary research team led by the ...

Researchers have looked into the practice of alley cropping, planting long-term tree crops alongside short-term cash crops, for sustainability. Alley cropping is a type of agroforestry, which is the ...

A Lincoln University research plot will showcase a highly productive alley cropping system with the goal of aiding small Missouri farmers. Agroforestry researcher Sougata Bardhan will plant rows of ...

A new University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign study integrates social, economic, and environmental factors in a new mapping tool that plots suitability for agroforestry practices, like the alley ...

Tajikistan is a dry and mountainous country where agroforestry is helping to stabilize soils degraded by decades of monoculture farming during the Soviet era, while growing food and providing cover ...

I once rented a pasture that adjoined a yard containing two apple and two pear trees. Every fall when the fruit ripened, the loaded trees would drop any blemished fruit early. The homeowner hated ...

Aimed at farmers, estate managers and land agents in Shropshire and the wider UK, Land App’s ground-breaking new Agroforestry Designer Toolkit aims to platform agroforestry – the intentional ...

Monocultures of corn and soybeans carpet 75% of the U.S. Midwest, leading to soil erosion, water pollution, and massive greenhouse gas emissions. However, a new wave of farmers is breaking the ...