Definition & Core Concept Agroforestry—also referred to as agro-sylviculture—is a deliberate land-use strategy integrating productive trees into agricultural landscapes, whether alongside crops, pasture, or both. This approach fosters synergy between plants and animals for higher ecological and productive value
ORC Researcher Dr. Colin Tosh recently developed a new framework for modelling the dynamics of agroecosystems, and here you are given full interactive access to these models.
One thing that ORC prides itself on is making its research available to farmers, growers, and the public. This is usually in the form of online or in-person webinars, on-farm events, or articles, but on this occasion, we tried our hand at a bit of coding and software development.
Dr. Colin Tosh, ORC Senior Agroforestry Researcher, recently published a new model of how the living things in arable agroecosystems interact, both in the presence and absence of in-field trees. This model was used to investigate how trees might buffer crop yield stress events such as crop pest or disease outbreaks, and in a forthcoming paper, it investigates how pesticides impact the ecosystem services that trees provide for arable farmers.
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