The Environmental Benefits of Agroforestry

Agroforestry is a land management system integrating trees with crops or livestock, and it is emerging as a potent climate mitigation tool for enhancing carbon sequestration. The carbon sequestration potential of agroforestry rivals or even exceeds that of traditional afforestation or forest ecosystems, according to recent studies. Agroforestry is thus gaining renewed attention, but for it to be more widely adopted, we must better understand how it works, and the environmental benefits it brings.