agroforestry
Every article and hero in Arborpedia that touches this subject.
№ 008RestorationAlley Cropping: Rows of Trees, Crops Between
Widely spaced tree rows with arable or vegetable alleys between them — the orientation, spacing, and root pruning that decide whether it works.
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№ 060TreesCacao and Coffee: The Understorey Cash Crops
Two shade-adapted crops that built agroforestry economies — why sun-grown systems yield more and cost more, and what shade actually buys.
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№ 105TreesCork Oak: The Tree You Harvest Without Cutting
An oak whose bark regrows after stripping, sustaining a wine-stopper economy and one of Europe's richest farmed landscapes — both threatened by the screw cap.
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№ 170GrowingDesigning a Food Forest
How to stack seven layers of edible woodland that feeds you for decades while slowly shedding the chores of an annual garden.
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№ 157TreesFaidherbia: The Fertiliser Tree That Grows Backwards
A Sahelian acacia that does everything the wrong way round — dropping its leaves in the rainy season and leafing up in the dry — so that crops thrive right beneath it, fed by its nitrogen and shaded by nothing. Africa's great 'evergreen agriculture' tree.
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№ 264TreesLeucaena and Gliricidia: The Fertiliser Trees You Cut Back
Fast nitrogen-fixing trees cut repeatedly for green manure and fodder — plus the mimosine that limits one and the versatility that spread the other.
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№ 316TreesNitrogen-Fixing Food Trees: Carob, Honey Locust, Mesquite
Trees that feed the soil and feed you. Carob, honey locust, mesquite, and a handful of others deliver food, fodder, and free nitrogen.
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№ 314RestorationNitrogen-Fixing Trees: Free Fertility Forever
Trees partnered with soil bacteria pull nitrogen from the air, feeding degraded soils and whole guilds without a bag of fertiliser.
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№ 436RestorationSilvopasture: Trees, Forage, and Livestock on the Same Ground
Deliberate integration of trees and grazing animals, why it outproduces either alone, and the establishment mistakes that kill the trees.
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№ 479GrowingSyntropic Agriculture: Farming by Accelerating Succession
Ernst Götsch's system of dense stratified planting and heavy pruning, where the chainsaw is a fertility tool and succession is the crop rotation.
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Ernst Götsch
Brazil · 1948–present
Swiss farmer who bought 480 hectares of dead land in Bahia and turned it into forest that produces cocoa, bringing back springs that had dried decades earlier.
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Tony Rinaudo
Niger · 1957–present
Australian agronomist known as the 'Forest Maker' who developed Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration, restoring over 200 million trees across Africa.