
- Nov 26, 2021
- 3 min
Trees and Crops Don’t Have to Compete. Climate Crisis Calls for Agroforestry.
By Frances Moore Lappé // November 27, 2021 A view of Faidherbia trees help to increase crop yields in Niger. From World Agroforestry on flicker. Originally Published in Truthout, November 27, 2021 Growing up in North Texas, farming to me meant fields of single crops stretching as far as the eye could see. Like many Americans, I’d come to assume that trees had no place in that vista. In fact, most of us probably assume a trade-off between forests and food. Now that the climat