Agroforestry is a word that probably won’t cause many people to rise to their feet in acknowledgment of its vitality. Nevertheless, it holds the promise of entirely reshaping landscapes, mitigating ...

In the latter part of 2016, Ethan Steinberg and two of his friends planned a driving tour across the U.S. to interview farmers. Their goal was to solve a riddle that had been bothering each of them ...

Coffee, as both a critical economic commodity and a model for plant resilience, exhibits a complex biology that underpins its global significance. The two major cultivated species, Coffea arabica and ...

The Amazon Rainforest generates its own weather. Each day, the forest’s 390 billion trees release approximately 20 billion metric tons of water vapor into the atmosphere through evapotranspiration, ...

Silvopasture, a portmanteau of the Latin words "silva" (forest) and "pastura" (grazing), is a form of agroforestry that the U.S. Department of Agriculture describes as "the deliberate integration of ...

The stereotypical picture of American farmland probably looks a lot like this: rolling hills lined with rows upon rows of singular crops, perfectly spaced out for machinery to cultivate, harvest and ...

“There’s nothing more simple or effective than a tree for sinking carbon, especially in places where we’ve been killing soils and releasing carbon for a long time,” enthuses Kaitie Adams. As director ...

As the world’s third-largest coffee producer and a nation that has been growing the popular Arabica variety since 1870, there’s not much that Colombia doesn’t know about growing the crop. In some ...

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Orangutan populations in Indonesia are showing signs of recovery, and scientists say sustainable coffee agroforestry is playing a key role in protecting rainforest habitats and restoring biodiversity.