General practice type | Land use and agroforestry practice | Brief description |
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Agrosilviculture/silvoarable | Trees integrated in crop fields (multipurpose trees) | Trees intercropped with annual or perennial crops; trees randomly or systematically planted in cropland for the purpose of providing fruit, fuel wood, timber, and other services |
Hedgerows, shelterbelts, and windbreak systems | Trees as fences around plots and/or an extended windbreak of living trees and shrubs established and maintained to protect farmlands | |
Alley-cropping systems | Rows of trees with a companion crop grown in the alleyways between the rows | |
Improved or rotational fallow | Land resting system using trees and shrubs to replenish soil fertility and potentially yield economic benefits, in rotation with crops as in traditional shifting cultivation | |
Riparian buffer strips | Areas along rivers and streams planted with trees, shrubs, and grasses to protect water quality | |
Silvopasture | Trees/shrubs on pasture (multipurpose trees) | Trees intercropped on pastures; trees randomly or systematically planted on pasture for the purpose of providing fruit, fuel wood, timber, and other services. Also used for forage/fodder and animal production |
Meadow orchards | Orchards, including fruit orchards, olive groves, vineyards, and fruit-bearing shrubs, which are grazed or sown with pastures | |
Hedgerows, shelterbelts, and windbreak systems | Trees as fences around plots and/or an extended windbreak of living trees and shrubs established and maintained to protect farmlands and animals and/or provide fodder | |
Agrosilvipasture | Integrated production of animals (meat and dairy), crops, and wood/fuelwood | Production of crops, animal/dairy, and wood products within the same land area, including around homesteads |
Forest farming | Forest farming | Forested areas used for production or harvest of naturally standing specialty crops for medicinal, ornamental or culinary uses |
Forest grazing | Forested areas with the understory grazed as a means of providing forage for animal production | |
Urban and periurban | Homegardens | Combining trees/shrubs with vegetable production usually associated with periurban or urban areas |
Agroforestry including insects/fish | Entomoforestry | Production combining trees and insects (e.g. bees for honey and trees) |
Aqua-silvo-fishery | Trees lining fish ponds, tree leaves being used as ‘forage’ for fish |