How to Use agroforestry in a Sentence

agroforestry

noun
  • Guatemala has been using agroforestry as a tool to restore degraded lands for years.
    — Thomas Crowther and Lucy Mulenckei, CNN, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Their diet is based on a mix of agriculture, agroforestry and home gardens.
    — Nell Lewis, CNN, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Food is homegrown at the new agroforestry project and farm, or bought from local producers.
    — Stephanie Rafanelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Food is homegrown at the new agroforestry project and farm, or bought from local producers.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The antique breed cleans the woodlands in an ancient version of agroforestry.
    — Stephanie Rafanelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 May 2023
  • Researchers have found that agroforestry projects often fail when the focus is solely on tree-planting and locals are left out of the process.
    — Jessica Leigh Hester, Wired, 21 Aug. 2021
  • Farmers also plant coffee interspersed with food crops in a practice called agroforestry.
    — Marianne Krasny, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Per acre, natural forests store six times more carbon than agroforestry zones and 40 times more than plantations.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The farm might combine agroforestry with soil carbon sequestration.
    — Scott Patterson, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2022
  • New kinds of agroforestry, for example, use sustainable harvest of forest products and crops that can grow among trees.
    — Jeff Young, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Consider agroforestry, in which farmers grow crops within a forest instead of clearcutting it.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 10 June 2021
  • Millions of farm families throughout the tropics have adopted agroforestry techniques, and more are signing on.
    — Eric Toensmeier, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
  • Mushroom growing, which is a part of agroforestry, can help with soil enrichment and carbon sequestration in woodlands.
    — Samantha Hendrickson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2022
  • The new species lives on the ground and is active during the day near agroforestry areas, on the edges of younger forests or close to marshes and slow-flowing streams, according to the study.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Nitrite producing plants balance the macro and micro climates within any biodiverse system with a longer term goal of agroforestry.
    — Alissa Fitzgerald, Forbes, 5 May 2022
  • The country also uses agroforestry, in areas such as Montado and Lameiros, amongst others.
    — Indrabati Lahiri, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • What were the characteristics that made the agroforestry polyculture strategy groups more resilient to climate change?
    — Debbie Ponchner, Scientific American, 18 June 2019
  • This company has made major improvements over the past year and did particularly well in some aspects of addressing child labour and agroforestry.
    — The Conversation, oregonlive, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Cheval Blanc has responded by moving into agroforestry, planting hundreds of trees among the vines—a technique borrowed from the history books.
    — Nick Kostov, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2022
  • In agroforestry systems, shade trees can buffer heat and drought, often reducing evaporation from soil and moderating plants’ water stress.
    — Paul Mwebaze, The Conversation, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Innovations such as climate-resistant cocoa strains and agroforestry initiatives may help stabilize supply in the long run.
    — David T. Nudelman, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • On one hand, local production of food and sustainable agroforestry are reasonable practices that should be enacted everywhere.
    — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Other farming programs—like agroforestry and perennial crops—can also sequester meaningful amounts of carbon from the atmosphere.
    — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2019
  • These corporations were found to be starting to implement good policies overall, though Mondelez and Nestlé fell behind on agroforestry.
    — David Vetter, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Less than a hectare in size, these agroforestry systems have four layers of plants, starting near the ground with food crops such as taro and beans, and reaching higher toward the sky with coffee, bananas, and finally tall trees.
    — Marianne Krasny, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • There's an abundance of science backing the benefits of agroforestry – a method of farming which plants trees in fields and cultivates biodiverse crops – for land regeneration.
    — Marianne Lehnis, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
  • But rather than build a traditional resort, Shuttleworth proposed to unlock long-term economic growth through sustainable tourism and agroforestry.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Planting trees on farmland, known as agroforestry, better soil management and reducing food waste are win-win solutions which can boost land productivity and reduce emissions.
    — Isabelle Gerretsen, CNN, 8 Aug. 2019
  • These opportunities extend from urban areas and agroforestry-friendly farms to burned mountainsides and coastal forests devastated by windstorms.
    — Yishan Wong, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Godiva’s owner, the British firm Pladis, which also owns McVitie’s, scored poorly on its due diligence and agroforestry policies.
    — David Vetter, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021

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