How to Use agroforestry in a Sentence

agroforestry

noun

• Their diet is based on a mix of agriculture, agroforestry and home gardens.
  — Nell Lewis, CNN, 13 Oct. 2021
• Guatemala has been using agroforestry as a tool to restore degraded lands for years.
  — Thomas Crowther and Lucy Mulenckei, CNN, 7 Sep. 2021
• 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
• 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
• Millions of farm families throughout the tropics have adopted agroforestry techniques, and more are signing on.
  — Eric Toensmeier, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Consider agroforestry, in which farmers grow crops within a forest instead of clearcutting it.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 10 June 2021
• The farm might combine agroforestry with soil carbon sequestration.
  — Scott Patterson, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2022
• Prince William, 39, added that the family was also trying agroforestry, planting crops in between rows of trees to provide healthier soil, higher yields and vital homes for wildlife.
  — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 2 Mar. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• That’s one more reason Wright and her team are emphasizing efforts to expand Ivohibory and Ranomafana through agroforestry projects.
  — Dyan MacHan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
• 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
• Mechanized farming is not a limitation, either; roughly 9 percent of farmland in the European Union is used for agroforestry.
  — Eric Toensmeier, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
• An environmental science major, Walker hoped to leverage his agroforestry work in Senegal into a federal job in a couple of years.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 26 Mar. 2020
• Earlier, while serving as environment secretary for the town, Benki had sought to lead its youth away from drug trafficking by training them in agroforestry and inviting them to kamarãpi ceremonies.
  — Carolina Schneider Comandulli, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 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
• Once the coronavirus lockdown is lifted, a community outreach program will begin training 44 locals on the hows and whys of organic gardening and agroforestry that sustain people and the planet.
  — National Geographic, 29 Apr. 2020
• On one hand, local production of food and sustainable agroforestry are reasonable practices that should be enacted everywhere.
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022
• 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
• One of our Champagne Maisons, Ruinart has dedicated 40 hectares of its historic vineyard to an agroforestry pilot project that will help promote biodiversity by providing habitats for fauna.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 28 June 2021
• Reddy, the director of Accion Fraterna Ecology Centre, and the farmers his organization supports use methods known as natural farming and agroforestry to avoid spoiling the land.
  — Sibi Arasu, ajc, 12 Nov. 2022
• 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
• Many, including major players like Moët Hennessy and Rivetto, are also considering agroforestry (interplanting vines with trees and shrubs) as a possible approach to viticulture in the future.
  — Karen Lubeck, Town & Country, 8 Nov. 2022
• While the environmentally disastrous effects of plantations are frequently discussed, agroforestry researchers try to strike a middle ground.
  — Nandita Jayaraj, Quartz India, 4 Sep. 2019
• Here, the local arm of the Catholic charity Caritas, working with other nongovernment organizations, has helped with mapping and protecting the borders of the territory and with providing technical support for fish farming and agroforestry.
  — Andrew J. Wight, NBC News, 9 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024