Academia Argentina de Agrofloresta: Matías Bertone experiments with and teaches about this particular productive system at his farm in El.

We asked the AI what agroforestry is and it gave us a rather accurate answer: “Agroforestry or the agroforestry system is a sustainable production technique that integrates trees (timber/fruit) with agricultural crops and/or animals, imitating the structure and biodiversity of a natural forest. This regenerative approach seeks to recover the soil, retain water, and capture carbon, avoiding bare soil through the intensive use of pruning and biomass.” We asked Wikipedia if it was a hippie thing or something like that and not really: In the 1970s, the Green Revolution in agriculture caused a high rate of deforestation and its effects were already being seen in the decrease in the productive capacity of soils and loss of biodiversity. The World Bank, chaired by Robert McNamara, reviewed certain concepts and the FAO created various agricultural research institutes. Thus, the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA, English acronym) was born, based in Nigeria, which began ...