We should restock these lands by developing herding and land-use programmes, as well as developing an agroforestry network along the forest’s perimetre The Circular 5/2001, makes it practically ...

Farming communities in the western Ugandan highlands of Butanda have for generations practiced agroforestry, intercropping fruit, grains and vegetables with medicinal plants, trees and grasses on ...

A family that once made its living by breeding cattle has converted 40 hectares of the Amazon into a conservatory for wildlife. In San José de Guaviare, Colombia, the Zapata family has transformed its ...

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Instead of farmers or ranchers just turning their livestock into a woodland to graze, experts say they should consider an alternative that’s better for the forest, the soil, their livestock’s ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Agricultural production news every morning. Alberto Oppata grows cocoa, black pepper, açaí, peach palm and pitaya on his 100 hectare ...

With beef and sheep under pressure from climate change negotiations, could agroforestry help improve livestock’s carbon footprint? Agroforestry combines farming and forestry. However, it’s not that ...

Ranching in Panama dates back to the 1500s, when Spanish settlers decided that cattle were the agricultural commodity that grew best in the tropical climate. This tradition has severely deforested the ...

Mike Adams had never seen the point in growing trees in fields. But visits to farms in southern Europe and Turkey proved transformational; he is now sold on their benefits for livestock, crop and soil ...