Alternative Agriculture: Is it time we redefined how we produce our food? The second quarter of 2024 has seen vast sections of the planet experience “once in a generation” weather […]
Improve Soil Health: Essential Practices for Sustainable Agriculture and Ecosystem Resilience The importance of your soil As many already know, soil is essential for ecosystems to exist. It is often […]
Agroforestry in the Mediterranean: Enhancing Water Availability in Agriculture (Cover photo by Seppe Deckx from the Agroforestry plot at La Junquera Regenerative Farm) The agroforestry system is an agricultural land-use […]
Climate-Smart Forestry: Strategies for Carbon Sequestration and Sustainable Management Introduction Forests are crucial to Earth’s ecosystem, offering ecological, economic, and social benefits. Climate change poses a global challenge, impacting forested […]
The Crucial Role of Birds in Our Ecosystem: Benefits, Monitoring, and Conservation How Birds Shape our Environment Birds are the only living descendants of dinosaurs, and they have evolved over […]
Empowering Smallholder Farmers: Sustainable Solutions for Climate-Resilient Food Systems Demand for local sustainable and productive food systems is rising while witnessing that the global systems relying on intensive, extractive practices […]
Syntropic Agroforestry: Rapid Yield Strategies for Mediterranean Fruit Orchards Intercropping apple trees, berries, and paulownias in an agroforestry system in a Mediterranean garden This article describes a certain agroforestry system that works […]
Layering Plant Species in Syntropic Systems: Enhancing Productivity and Sustainability In my previous articles, we focused on the benefits of syntropic farming in water management, leading to generating farmlands on […]
“Planting water”: How agroforestry helped crops become drought resilient – A real-life example The personal testimony of Roland van Reenen, a Forest Farmer from Curaçao’ It was the year 2019, and I […]
Towards a resilient agriculture Agriculture is a sector that contributes to global warming and suffers its consequences but also offers opportunities for adaptation and mitigation. Agriculture’s ability to cope with […]
Lecture in the context of the ”Forum Biozyklisch-Veganer Anbau”: Agroforestry as an opportunity for biocyclic vegan agriculture Agroforestry systems offer numerous climate and environmental benefits and, at the same time, […]
Figure 1 (Used as cover picture). Hedge of the nitrogen-fixing Calliandra calothyrsus successfully direct seeded with improved low-cost methods and used for fodder and fuel in a Nitrogen-deficient maize field […]
In another article, we discussed how coffee plants could be cultivated using rain or installing an irrigation system. When it comes to solar exposure, there are also two methods for […]
Cover picture: Shelter belt as windbreak. This is one form of agroforestry where interactions of trees or shrubs and crops are used. Agroforestry does not necessarily mean that the field […]
