The Center for Agroforestry at the University of Missouri, established in 1998, is one of the world’s leading centers contributing to the science underlying agroforestry, the integration of trees and shrubs into agricultural landscapes.
Integrated temperate agroforestry practices including forest farming, alley cropping, silvopasture, riparian buffers, windbreaks, and urban food forests, can enhance land and aquatic habitats for wildlife and improve biodiversity while sustaining land resources for generations to come. Agroforestry practices benefit farmers, landowners, and other land stewards by diversifying products, markets, and farm income; improving soil and water quality; sequestering carbon; and reducing erosion, non-point source pollution, and damage due to flooding. Agroforestry contributes to resilience in a time of change.