Forms of Agroforestry

System
General Forms
• Agrosilviculture/silvoarable
• Silvopasture
• Agrosilvipasture
• Forest farming
• Urban and periurban
• Agroforestry including insects/fish
 Land use and agroforestry practice

• Agrosilviculture/silvoarable

1. Trees integrated in crop fields (multipurpose trees)

Description:
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
 Land use and agroforestry practice

• Agrosilviculture/silvoarable

2. Hedgerows, shelterbelts, and windbreak systems

Description:
Trees as fences around plots and/or an extended windbreak of living
trees and shrubs established and maintained to protect farmlands
 Land use and agroforestry practice

• Agrosilviculture/silvoarable

3. Alley-cropping systems

Description:
Rows of trees with a companion crop grown in the alleyways between
the rows
 Land use and agroforestry practice

• Agrosilviculture/silvoarable

4. Improved or rotational fallow

Description:
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
 Land use and agroforestry practice

• Agrosilviculture/silvoarable

5. Riparian buffer strips

Description:
Areas along rivers and streams planted with trees, shrubs, and grasses to
protect water quality
 Land use and agroforestry practice

• Silvopasture

1. Tree/shrubs on pasture (multipurpose trees)

Description:
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
 Land use and agroforestry practice

• Silvopasture

2. Meadow orchards

Description:
Orchards, including fruit orchards, olive groves, vineyards, and fruit-
bearing shrubs, which are grazed or sown with pastures
 Land use and agroforestry practice

• Silvopasture

3. Hedgerows, shelterbelts, and windbreak systems

Description:
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
 Land use and agroforestry practice

Agrosilvipasture

1. Integrated production of animals (meat and dairy), crops, and

wood/fuelwood

Description:
Production of crops, animal/dairy, and wood products within the same
land area, including around homesteads
 Land use and agroforestry practice

Forest farming

1. Forest farming

Description:
Forested areas used for production or harvest of naturally standing
specialty crops for medicinal, ornamental or culinary uses
 Land use and agroforestry practice

Forest farming

2. Forest grazing

Description:
Forested areas with the understory grazed as a means of providing
forage for animal production
 Land use and agroforestry practice

Urban and periurban

1. Homegardens

Description:
Combining trees/shrubs with vegetable production usually associated
with periurban or urban areas
 Land use and agroforestry practice

Agroforestry including insects/fish

1. Entomoforestry

Description:
Production combining trees and insects (e.g. bees for honey and trees)
 Land use and agroforestry practice

Agroforestry including insects/fish

1. Aqua-silvo-fishery

Description:
Trees lining fish ponds, tree leaves being used as ‘forage’ for fish