Farming Mattters | 27.2 | June 2011
This issue of Farming Matters provides an in-depth understanding of the overall advantages that trees bring and looks at the policy issues that influence the adoption of agroforestry.
While the size of the world’s forests is declining, the number of trees on farms is increasing substantially. This reflects the many benefits they bring – to farmers, to their farms and to the ecosystems these are in. Yet there are several issues that need to be considered in order to sustain this growth, among which we have governance, policies and rights.