In a field of bare red dirt in São Paulo state, Paula Costa is trying to turn back the clock. Five hundred years ago, this land was part of the Mata Atlantica, a dense, diverse rain forest that ...

Here’s how a Pacific Northwest roaster is looking to address climate change and make the world a better place by returning to a time-honored practice of growing beans. Forecast Coffee is a brand that ...

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 ...

Rubber farmers in Thailand are increasingly adopting agroforestry as a more climate-friendly and sustainable way of cultivating the commodity, which ranks among the world’s largest drivers of tropical ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Agroforestry, or forest gardening, is the practice of growing of trees, shrubs, herbs, and vegetables together in a group mimicking a forest, or ...

In Côte d’Ivoire, cocoa is an important source of income for the population and the state. However, its production has led to massive deforestation, reducing forest cover and the associated ecosystem ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Alberto Oppata grows cocoa, black pepper, açaí, peach palm and pitaya on his 100 hectare farm in Tomé-Açu, in ...

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The agroforestry is not only a source of protection of natural forest in the country but also provides significant economic benefits to growers. This was stated in a recent study conducted by the ...

Agroforestry could play an important role in mitigating climate change because it sequesters more atmospheric carbon in plant parts and soil than conventional farming, according to researchers.