agroforestry

In the Cordilleras, for instance, the practice of growing agricultural and forest crops along with the raising of livestock in home lots have been observed for centuries, even before the term agroforestry developed.

1. Multistoried Sequential Cropping: The Cavite Model 1992

Carolina said agroforestry, which is relatively new for Venezuela, has been adopted because the greater part of Barquisimeto city's water supply comes from wells in this part of the River Turbio valley.

Venezuela's agrarian reform: Agroforestry to improve Barquisimeto water supplies 2009

The latter is known as agroforestry or land sharing-balancing the crop yields with biodiversity.

Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed 2010

It was a kind of agroforestry that was unlike anything in Europe.

A Conversation with Charles C. Mann 2010

In situ approaches such as agroforestry are effective ways of integrating biodiversity issues into agriculture and forest management.

Ecosystems and Human Well-being~ Opportunities and Challenges for Business and Industry~ How the MA Findings Affect Your Bottom Line 2008

Roy Danforth, Paul Noren, and other missionaries with the Evangelical Covenant Church have, since 1978, worked with Zairian leaders in promoting programs such as agroforestry, animal husbandry, fish farming, appropriate technology, and rural development.

4: Multipurpose trees 1996

Farmers in the watershed will not be sent away from the area but motivated to change to improved land use methods, such as agroforestry and pasture improvement.

1. Historical development and experience with water treatment 1996

In general the state will have to play an important role in directing research funding to alternate forestry practice, such as agroforestry, farm forestry and reclamation forestry.

ANC Agricultural Policy 1994

Farmer based technology such as agroforestry techniques, fodder banks, development of vegetative erosion control barriers, utilization of crop wastes, increased planting of leguminous trees and pasture crops are techniques that are readily adaptable.

1. Intensive sustainable livestock production: an alternative to tropical deforestation. 1992

Planting trees that have agricultural and feed uses, a practice known as "agroforestry," has the benefit of reducing feed costs for animals, while the trees themselves absorb carbon.

PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

He wants local farmers to consider replanting their fields with nut trees, or integrating trees into agriculture, a practice called agroforestry, which he says sequesters carbon and provides a stable crop in the face of a changing climate.

‘When in doubt, plant a nut tree’: the push to seed America with chestnuts Emily Cataneo 2023