Robert Orzanna edited Agro Forestry.tex  almost 10 years ago

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\item even the most simplest system is ecologically (structurally and functionally) more complex than a monocropping system  \end{itemize}  Agro Forestry, where planting trees falls under, In practice, agroforestry  is often used as  a strategy that involves combining the combination of  regular crops with trees (and shrubs) to increase the succes resilince  of their the  crops and thus to  generate extra income. income security from crop sales. Several methods are  This can be done trough easy systems like intercropping, alley cropping and hedgerow cropping or more complex systems that form a natural forrest ecosystem \cite{Mbow_2014a}. Trees have many advantages that include water tapping, prevention of nutrient leaching, decreasing carbon in the atmospphere, buffer climatic extremes, change the surface albedo, providing benefits like fruits, fuel and medicinal qualities, and even influence rain pattertns \cite{Mbow_2014a}.