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The Impact of Syntropic Agroforestry on Water Usage and Farm Resilience

The Impact of Syntropic Agroforestry on Water Usage and Farm Resilience

“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 […]

Practices to adapt and cope with climate change

What practices and approaches should be adopted in agriculture to cope with climate change

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 […]

Agroforestry as an opportunity for biocyclic vegan agriculture

Agroforestry as an opportunity for biocyclic vegan agriculture

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, […]

Agroforestry: Intercropping with trees on farms and pastures - with a focus on the subhumid tropics

Agroforestry: Intercropping with trees on farms and pastures – with a focus on the subhumid tropics

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 […]

What type of agroforestry system is shade-grown coffee?

Shade-Grown Coffee in an Agroforestry System

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 […]

Agroforestry - combining trees and agriculture to improve Soil - Water Conservation

Agroforestry – combining trees and agriculture to improve Soil – Water Conservation

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 […]