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Working Trees For Agriculture

By adding the right trees in the right places, you can make your land more productive and sustainable. (6 pages)

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Agroforestry: Working Trees For Agriculture

This agroforestry overview provides definitions and explanations of various practices and benefits. (22 slides)

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Small Farms, Big Opportunities

This presentation was given at the Minority Landowner Magazine 5th Anniversary Conference held in Raleigh, NC on February 24-26, 2011. (31 slides)

Power Point (3.2 MB)

About Agroforestry

Agroforestry intentionally combines agriculture and forestry to create integrated and sustainable land-use systems. Agroforestry takes advantage of the interactive benefits from combining trees and shrubs with crops and/or livestock. Agroforestry practices include:

About NAC

The USDA National Agroforestry Center (NAC) had its origins in the 1990 Farm Bill. It began as a Forest Service Research and State & Private Forestry effort in 1992 and expanded into a partnership with the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in 1995. It is administered by the Forest Service, Southern Research Station. NAC offices are located in Lincoln, Nebraska and Blacksburg, Virginia.

NAC accelerates the application of agroforestry through a national network of partners. Together, we conduct research, develop technologies and tools, coordinate demonstrations and training, and provide useful information to natural resource professionals.

About Working Trees

The right trees planted in the right places for the right reasons can add value to land-use systems. That's the Working Trees message that helps natural resource professionals, community leaders, and landowners identify with the concept of agroforestry. NAC uses the Working Trees theme to promote the development of sustainable agriculture and communities.

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