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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

PRETATERRA06/06/2019

Regenerative Agroforestry at Scale

How can we replace agriculture based on chemical inputs with complex systems based on mimicking natural cycles and processes?Articles