The Agroforestry Report covers the seven main practice standards related to agroforestry: alley cropping, forest farming, windbreak/shelterbelt establishment and renovation, silvopasture, riparian forest buffers, hedgerow plantings, and tree and shrub establishment. This report synthesizes research on benefits and best practices associated with agroforestry.

In addition to practice-specific guidance, the working group provides an analysis of how the three main models for predicting biomass carbon accumulation over time (USDA COMET Farm/Planner, USDA/USFS Forest Vegetation Simulator, and USDA/USFS iTree) compared to empirical datasets that quantify these same biomass carbon outcomes. This comparison provides a novel way to evaluate the performance of the most commonly used models in forestry systems applied to agroforestry systems.

Summary

TWG MEMBERS

• Nate Lawrence (chair), Savanna Institute

• Aakash Ahamed, Working Trees Inc. and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

• Ashley Conway-Anderson, University of Missouri

• Kris Covey, Skidmore College

• Lingxi Chenyang, University of Utah

• Siddarth Machado, The Nature Conservancy

• Chloe Wardropper, University of Illinois

RESEARCH ASSISTANTS

• Emily Stutzman, Caney Fork Farms, Skidmore College

• Charlie Mize, Mizelia, LLC