Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Toolbox

Agroforestry

This module provides an overview of agroforestry systems; it also describes how to identify the most appropriate agroforestry system and to design, adapt, establish and manage it. A section on the “enabling environment” is targeted primarily at policymakers, including national and local authorities. 

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...
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...
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