Financial Planning

Financial Planning

Financial planning is one component of a business plan. Several characteristics of agroforestry make it different to plan for than other types of agriculture. Specifically, due to the perennial nature of trees, agroforestry requires long planning horizons, irregular...
Whole Farm Planning

Whole Farm Planning

Agroforestry may be one of several management practices you use. Understanding how your agroforestry practice(s) will fit into your broader land management system will help ensure that this practice will succeed and continue over time.  Whole farm planning is one way...
Introduction

Introduction

Course Overview Agroforestry practices are influenced by the characteristics of the land and the goals and values of people stewarding the land. In the Agroforestry Foundations course, we started thinking about all the aspects that need to be considered to help us...
Considering Carbon

Considering Carbon

Climate change is already having significant, wide-ranging effects on agriculture, which will be covered in more depth in the Ecology of Agroforestry Systems in a Changing Climate. Carbon pricing is one tool for reducing carbon emissions that can benefit the...
Financial Assistance Programs

Financial Assistance Programs

Perennial Pathways: Planting Tree Crops Savanna Institute Let’s start by reviewing a section of the book Planting Tree Crops for an overview of sources of financial assistance. Content: (p. 91-93) Read Finding Agroforestry in the 2014 Farm Bill Inside Agroforestry,...