Trees should be in every farmer’s toolbox. They boost productivity, resilience and the health of the environment – with no need to trade off with production. If you’re looking to plant lots of trees, ...

Agroforestry is on the mind for Modern Farmer readers, who chimed in to ask for more coverage of how trees and shrubs can integrate into agricultural landscapes this year. As part of our recent ...

At the Food as Medicine Summit in Chicago, surrounded by leaders in healthcare, food systems and policy, one topic stood out to me as both quietly revolutionary and urgently relevant: agroforestry. It ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Conventional farming can be hard on land: ...