agroforestry
农林业,农林,农林学,农林业
Definitions
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- : a method and system of land management involving the simultaneous cultivation of farm crops and trees; agriculture incorporating the growing of trees: Agroforestry ensures a continuous food supply, some continuous economic return, and the avoidance of soil degradation.
Examples
The farm also incorporates traditional agroforestry methods, Wexler says.
The way agroforestry is carried out in three very different parts of the world illustrates the promises and challenges of coupling trees and crops.
To offer better options, Regreening Africa hopes to couple agroforestry and sustainable land use practices.
Small farms may be more willing to embrace agroforestry, but to meet the looming challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss, large farms need to as well.
In the Shinyanga region of Tanzania, a return to traditional Indigenous practices, with a dose of modern agroforestry, helped transform what was once the “desert of Tanzania” back into productive savanna woodlands.
They lend themselves to biodiverse agriculture as well as to agroforestry, a style of tree farming that promotes diversity.