Definition: Agro-forestry

Category: FAO Agricultural censuses

Sustainable land management system in which forest species of trees and other wooded plants are purposely grown on the same land as agricultural crops or livestock (Census 2020).

Agro-forestry is a sustainable farm management system in which trees and other wooded plants are purposely grown on the same land as agricultural crops or livestock, either concurrently or in rotation (Census 2010). http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/world_census_agri_2020_EN.pdf Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), "A system of integrated agricultural censuses and surveys. Volume 1: World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2010", Rome, 2005