Agroforestry for sustainable resource management and food security
Channel: CIMMYT WebCast
Date: 21/02/2018

initiatives both in the US and around the world. Mr. Ormsby Mori will talk about the role of agroforestry and its potential contribution for provisioning ecosystem services and enhancing food security, with some examples of corn and wheat agroforestry intercropping from around the world. The Center for Agroforestry at the University of Missouri, established in 1998, is one the world's leading centers contributing to the science underlying agroforestry, the science and practice of intensive land-use management combining trees and/or shrubs with crops and/or livestock. Agroforestry practices help landowners to diversify products, markets and farm income; improve soil and water quality; sequester carbon, and reduce erosion, non-point source pollution and damage due to flooding; and mitigate climate change.