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PRETATERRA11/17/2020

Circular bioeconomy: how agroforestry can contribute to changing the world

How can agroforestry support a circular bioeconomy? PRETATERRA explores regenerative production, landscape restoration and new partnerships.Articles

PRETATERRA10/19/2020

Paula and Valter on the mission to break the monoculture paradigm

Paula Costa and Valter Ziantoni explain their approach to scalable agroforestry and alternatives to monoculture.Press

PRETATERRA08/23/2020

What Is Agroforestry, and Why Will It Change How We Farm?

In an article for Globo Rural, Valter Ziantoni and Paula Costa explain why the system is the solution to producing food and regenerating ecosystems without separating conservation from agricultural production.Articles

PRETATERRA04/18/2020

Integrated Livestock Production Systems

An overview of integrated crop, livestock and forestry systems, including silvopastoral practices.Articles

PRETATERRA03/25/2020

PRETATERRA at CreativeMornings

PRETATERRA spoke about ancestral knowledge and agroforestry at a CreativeMornings event in January 2020.Articles

PRETATERRA02/20/2020

Regenerative Livestock in Agroforestry

How silvopastoral systems can restore degraded pasture, support livestock and diversify production.Articles

PRETATERRA12/13/2019

PRETATERRA's Agroforestry

How PRETATERRA designs biodiverse, replicable agroforestry systems with local knowledge, technical planning and careful field management.Articles

PRETATERRA07/03/2019

Agroforestry Production and Sales by Family Farmers

How family farmers can sell diverse agroforestry products and connect with consumers.Articles

PRETATERRA07/03/2019

What Are Agroforests?

Agroforestry combines trees, crops and sometimes animals in one productive system. Definitions from FAO, ICRAF, Embrapa and Brazil’s Ministry of the Environment.Articles

PRETATERRA07/03/2019

Trees in production systems – agroforestry

Agricultural production systems that adopt trees in their composition have several advantages, both for increasing productivity and conserving natural resources.Articles

PRETATERRA06/06/2019

Ernst Götsch's Syntropic Agriculture

Syntropic agriculture combines succession, vertical layering and on-site biomass production to build complex, biodiverse farming systems.Articles

PRETATERRA06/06/2019

The Cerrado Frontier and a Shift in Agricultural Thinking

Agroforestry offers a way to restore degraded land in the Cerrado while supporting food production and biodiversity.Articles