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  1. Association for Temperate Agroforestry

    The Association for Temperate Agroforestry (AFTA) is a non-profit organisation working to promote and disseminate temperate agroforestry in North America. Its main focus is on education and outreach - including via a newsletter and technical publications. From the website you can access some information for free focusing particularly on definitions and benefits of different agroforestry systems, membership will give access to more in depth information via articles and a members only area. Every two years, AFTA hosts the North American Agroforestry Conference.

  2. ATTRA sustainable agriculture – Agroforestry

    National Center for Appropriate Technology’s ATTRA Sustainable Agriculture program supports US farmers, ranchers, agriculture educators, and land managers. Trusted source of sustainable agriculture information and maintains a knowledge base of practical multimedia resources for farmers, ranchers, and educators. NCAT’s agriculture specialists work directly with farmers, ranchers, land managers, and others across the country to provide individualised technical assistance, offer practical learning opportunities, and facilitate meaningful connections among producers, experts, researchers, and industry professionals.

  3. Devon silvopasture network

    Seven farmers and a research farm in Devon, UK, are integrating trees with livestock on their farms and monitoring the impact on livestock behaviour, biodiversity and soil health metrics as part of a 12-year field lab through the Innovative Farmers programme involving the Woodland Trust, Organic Research Centre, Rothamsted Research and FWAG SW. Three designs are being tested, with a mixture of cluster planting, regular spacing and shelterbelts. The farm enterprises are a mixture of dairy, beef, sheep and arable. The Woodland Trust have worked with the farmers to design planting systems. Each design has been chosen to suit the grazing requirements of the farmers as well as fitting into the natural environment surrounding the chosen fields. Over 12 years, the farmers are monitoring tree establishment and factors that may affect this (fencing, wildlife, livestock interactions and the use of decoy rubbing posts and 'sacrificial willow' to distract livestock from protected trees and shrubs). The aim is to provide the first ever set of long-term data practically grounded in the reality of commercial farms. From this page you can access a series of short films featuring farmers explaining why there are researching silvopasture and detailed technical information on the three designs being tested.

  4. The Agroforestry Handbook

    This 150-page book, published in 2019, is downloadable from the Soil Association website. The handbook introduces the theory of agroforestry and looks at practical management and design considerations. There is also information on markets and pricing. It is divided into sections on what is agroforestry, agroforestry systems design, silvopasture, silvoarable, hedges, windbreaks, and riparian buffers, and the economic case for agroforestry. The authors are leading researchers and practitioners with decades of experience in agroforestry from around the world.

  5. USDA National Agroforestry Center

    Collection of agroforestry-related tools and information sources - vast library of training resources, publications, webinars, newsletters, technical guides, photos, and other media can be browsed and downloaded. You can also find more information about specific USDA programs and partner working groups and proceedings from agroforestry-related conferences.

  6. Wakelyns Agroforestry: Resilience through diversity

    Wakelyns, surrounded by a sea of large-scale conventional arable production, is an oasis of trees, alive with bird song and insects. Integrating trees for timber, energy and fruit production into an organic crop rotation, this 22.5 hectare innovative farm was established by the late plant pathologist, Prof. Martin Wolfe, to put into action his theories of agrobiodiversity being the answer to achieving sustainable and resilient agriculture. Marking 30 years of agroforestry at Wakelyns, this recently updated publication celebrates the work of Martin and Ann, fellow researchers from the Organic Research Centre and the wider research and Wakelyns community; as evolved and expanded on by their son David Wolfe and his wife Amanda from 2020. It tells the story of Wakelyns and includes sections on diverse cereal populations, impacts of added diversity on insects and birds, food and energy production, enterprise stacking, ramial woodchip trials, pond restoration and creation, research focused on tree / crop interactions, and sustainability assessments.

  7. World Agroforestry (ICRAF)

    The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) is an international research centre based in Kenya that has been working on agroforestry in subtropical and tropical countries since 1978. The only institution that does globally significant agroforestry research in and for all of the developing tropics. Knowledge produced by ICRAF enables governments, development agencies and farmers to utilise the power of trees to make farming and livelihoods more environmentally, socially and economically sustainable at scales.

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