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Recent Examples of agroforestry
The farm will serve as a leading model for sustainable, regenerative agriculture for the whole island, using clever farming techniques such as agroforestry and syntropic agriculture to offset challenges with growing food in Puerto Rico’s tropical climate.
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Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
In addition to its potential to fix some of the flaws in our food system and preserve the soil that so concerned Smith, agroforestry has a role in addressing climate change.
—Ben Seal, JSTOR Daily, 19 Mar. 2025
Incentives such as tax breaks, subsidies, and grants for agroforestry, regenerative agriculture, and climate-resilient farming are essential and can be tailored to create models that can benefit both the economy and the environment.
—Dianne Plummer, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Innovations such as climate-resistant cocoa strains and agroforestry initiatives may help stabilize supply in the long run.
—David T. Nudelman, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
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Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
In addition to its potential to fix some of the flaws in our food system and preserve the soil that so concerned Smith, agroforestry has a role in addressing climate change.
—Ben Seal, JSTOR Daily, 19 Mar. 2025
Incentives such as tax breaks, subsidies, and grants for agroforestry, regenerative agriculture, and climate-resilient farming are essential and can be tailored to create models that can benefit both the economy and the environment.
—Dianne Plummer, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Innovations such as climate-resistant cocoa strains and agroforestry initiatives may help stabilize supply in the long run.
—David T. Nudelman, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for agroforestry
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One plant that gets more blame than others is corn, said Dan Quinn, assistant professor of agronomy and extension corn specialist at Purdue University.—
Maya Wilkins,
Chicago Tribune,
24 July 2025
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Ten minutes away are the LMR experimental fields, for smelling what its team is developing and agronomy research.—
Jennifer Weil,
Footwear News,
3 Sep. 2019
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Based in Chesterfield, Missouri, Bunge North America is an agribusiness that produces and markets multiple food ingredients including corn, wheat, rice, soybeans and feed peas.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
2 Aug. 2025
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The total number of recipients is estimated to be 210,000, according to the agribusiness data hub Tridge.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 July 2025
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Industries like aquaculture, tourism, and fisheries rely on them, amounting to a staggering US$375 billion globally each year.—
Jenny Lehmann,
Discover Magazine,
16 May 2025
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China recently expanded an aquaculture facility in the Provisional Measures Zone between China and South Korea.—
Jill Goldenziel,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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That’s why trees really need their canopies during hot summer temperatures, said James Downer, a plant pathologist and horticulturist who teaches arboriculture at Cal Poly Pomona and just retired from the Ventura County UC Cooperative Extension office.—
Jeanette Marantos,
Los Angeles Times,
21 July 2023
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One of the fastest growing areas has been utility arboriculture, which involves managing trees near power lines and other infrastructure.—
Marguerite Holloway,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2020
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The site serves as a working farm and education center focused on agroecology, carbon capture, soil health, and sustainable supply chains.—
Francois Botha,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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Civil society groups like the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa are calling for financial institutions to stop propping up corporate industrial agriculture, urging more public investment in agroecology instead.—
Christine Ro,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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As that happened, animal and plant populations shifted range or died out, and hunter-gatherer societies either became nomadic or clustered around remaining water sources and took up one or another form of sedentary agriculture, including the cultivation of the date palm.—
Jacob Jones,
JSTOR Daily,
13 Aug. 2025
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The cultivation and export of flowers has long been one of the most important industries in Colombia, but the best of the bunch always stay closer to home.—
Carley Rojas Ávila,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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Students in the program will learn horticulture therapy techniques and how to develop therapy programs, while students in the advanced horticulture therapy certificate program will deepen their expertise within the field, the release said.—
Michelle Mullins,
Chicago Tribune,
21 July 2025
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Robert Westerfield, horticulture specialist, University of Georgia.—
Meghan Overdeep,
Southern Living,
27 May 2025
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“Agroforestry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agroforestry. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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