Organic yerba mate: an environmentally, socially and financially suitable agroforestry system
06 August 2015
06 August 2015
This article shows how small to medium-sized farmers grow yerba mate, a native tree from South America, in an agroforestry system in combination with timber trees. The farmers get a price surplus when the yerba mate leaves can be sold as organic products. The agroforestry system favours organic farming of...
Participatory agroforestry development in DPR Korea
06 August 2015
06 August 2015
This document, published by the World Agroforestry Centre, was developed to support the introduction of agroforestry systems in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. An easy-to-follow, illustrated guide to the many aspects of agroforestry in the country, it promotes the use of trees by local people in their day-to-day farming...