Agroforestry or agro-sylviculture is a land use management system in which trees or shrubs are grown around or among crops or pastureland. It combines agricultural and forestry technologies to create more diverse, productive, profitable, healthy, and sustainable land-use systems. ==As a science== The theoretical base for agroforestry comes from ec...
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(sustainability) an ecologically based farming system, that, through the integration of trees in farms, increases social, environmental and economic benefits to land users.
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(from the article `forestry`) Agroforestry is a practice that has been utilized for many years, particularly in developing countries, and is now widely promoted as a land-use ...
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<ecology> The collective word for all land-use systems and practices in which trees and shrubs are deliberately grown on the same land management unit as crops and/or animals. ... This can be either in some form of spatial arrangement or in a time sequence. To qualify as agroforestry, a given land-use system or practice must permit significan...
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The integration of tree growing with crop and livestock production. Agroforestry offers a way of tackling the combined problems of wood storages, poor agricultural production and environmental degradation.
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(sustainability) an ecologically based farming system, that, through the integration of trees in farms, increases social, environmental and economic benefits to land users.
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agroforestry 1. A system of land use in which harvestable trees or shrubs are grown among or around crops or on pastureland, as a means of preserving or enhancing the productivity of the land. 2. Agriculture in which there is integrated management of trees or shrubs along with conventional crops or livestock. 3. In modern applications, it now refe...
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Land use system in which woody perennials are grown for wood production with agricultural crops, with or without animal production.
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