Decades of chemical-heavy agriculture in India have exacted an enormous price: declining soil fertility, erosion, and increasingly fragile ecosystems.

India can unlock the full potential of its agro-forestry sector by focusing on plywood, paper, furniture and food processing industries, a report to be shared at a regional congress said ...

Tropical forests generate vast amounts of rainfall, essential for agriculture and water security, with a new University of Leeds study assigning a staggering monetary value to this overlooked service.

In 2007, 22-year-old P. Ramesh’s groundnut farm was losing money. As was the norm in most of India (and still is), Ramesh was using a cocktail of pesticides and fertilizers across his 2.4 hectares in ...

It has many names: multi-story cropping, agroforestry, forest farming. All of these refer to farming within treed land. It’s a great way to seamlessly integrate the farm into the landscape and ...

An IT engineer who once worked in Bengaluru’s corporate sector has transformed hundreds of acres of barren land into thriving food forests, reportedly planting more than one lakh trees across India ...

Several Indian states plan to integrate trees into mainstream farming systems to improve soil health, capture atmospheric carbon, and diversify rural livelihoods, as crop yields drop due to climate ...