"Alley cropping” is the agricultural practice of planting rows – or alleys – of trees in fields of crops. According to a new study by an international, multidisciplinary research team led by the ...

Researchers have looked into the practice of alley cropping, planting long-term tree crops alongside short-term cash crops, for sustainability. Alley cropping is a type of agroforestry, which is the ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded a grant to a Lincoln University agroforestry researcher to develop an alley cropping system for research and practice that will ...

Tajikistan is a dry and mountainous country where agroforestry is helping to stabilize soils degraded by decades of monoculture farming during the Soviet era, while growing food and providing cover ...

A Lincoln University research plot will showcase a highly productive alley cropping system with the goal of aiding small Missouri farmers. Agroforestry researcher Sougata Bardhan will plant rows of ...

Researchers and Extension specialists at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture have received a grant to study alley cropping as a viable solution to mitigate crop stress and improve the ...

For some grain farmers, diversification can mean growing soybeans and raising cattle. For others, it involves planting crops and trees side by side. The latter practice is known as agroforestry, and ...

Aimed at farmers, estate managers and land agents in Shropshire and the wider UK, Land App’s ground-breaking new Agroforestry Designer Toolkit aims to platform agroforestry – the intentional ...