The stereotypical picture of American farmland probably looks a lot like this: rolling hills lined with rows upon rows of singular crops, perfectly spaced out for machinery to cultivate, harvest and ...

Mongabay is publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,” in short installments and in three languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese. In this section, Killeen focuses on ...

Agroforestry is on the mind for Modern Farmer readers, who chimed in to ask for more coverage of how trees and shrubs can integrate into agricultural landscapes this year. As part of our recent ...

Preta Terra’s agroforestry project, left, beside a monoculture farm, in Timburi, Brazil, on March 29.Victor Moriyama for TIME In a field of bare red dirt in São Paulo state, Paula Costa is trying to ...

The USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and Maryland’s Forest Service are advancing separate but complementary efforts to promote sustainable agriculture. NIFA is investing in ...