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Agroforestry

What is Agroforestry:

Agroforestry combines agriculture and forestry technologies to create more integrated, diverse, productive, profitable, healthy and sustainable land-use systems.

Agroforestry practices include:

* Alley Cropping
* Maple Syrup
* Forest Farming
* Riparian Forest Buffers
* Silvopasture
* Windbreaks
* Special Applications

Agroforestry is a "social forestry" - its purpose is sustainable development. Practices are focused on meeting the economic, environmental and social needs of people on their private lands.

At the farm level, agroforestry is a set of practices that provide strong economic and conservation incentives for landowner adoption.

Incorporated into watersheds and landscapes, agroforestry practices help to attain community/society goals for more diverse, healthy and sustainable land-use systems.
(Taken from the National Agroforestry Center http://www.unl.edu/nac/ )

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