Under the Shadow of the Tree

According to the French AgroForestry Association (AFAF): “By definition,agroforestry covers all agricultural practices which combine, on the same plot, trees (in all their forms: hedges, rows, groves, etc.) with agricultural cultivation and/or livestock farming. From the farm to the watershed, from the open field (ager) to the domestic forest or pastured wood, good integration of trees and hedges in agriculture makes it possible to increase production, diversify income and ecological services and to ensure the preservation and renewal of natural resources: water, soil and their fertility, biodiversity…”