When Farm Meets Forest
Time-worn agroforestry practices may be the future of sustainable development.
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We typically think of forestland and farmland as being mutually exclusive. But many indigenous people around the world traditionally have cultivated crops right alongside trees and shrubs, and some sustainable-development advocates believe it’s time to bring back and update these “agroforestry” practices, reports Upstream Journal (Fall-Winter 2010).
Douglas Jack, project coordinator of the Sustainable Development Corporation, tells Upstream Journal, “The abundance of nature, when humans know how to work with it, is free and very low labor-input, compared with the kind of slavery that we create for ourselves through agriculture.”
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