write the benefits and drawbacks of agroforestry?
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Trees have always been important part of the countryside. When traveling through rural areas anywhere in the world you will see trees incorporated into the landscape. You will see orchards, scattered fruit trees in gardens, hedgerows separating fields, woodlands, or perhaps majestic oaks forming natural boundaries of meadows.
These trees have been managed by us. They have been planted or left to grow with a purpose. They protect, separate, shield, provide and feed–just like trees in natural ecosystems. We have recognized their priceless services since we have started to settle and cultivate land to produce food.
As the historical records show, already during the Copper Age were original pine forests in Spain replaced by widely spaced oaks and grasses to raise pigs. The combination of grasses for grazing and acorns from oaks to feed on, resulted in a high-quality pork meat. Additionally, large growing oaks supplied plenty of firewood and other products (e.g. cork). It didn’t last long before the majority of Spain’s landscape was covered with these fruitful meadows, as they not only supported livelihoods of local people, but also the biodiversity of wildlife, pollinators and plants.
Trees managed this way created such a productive system that it is highly valued until today. In south-west Spain and southern parts of Portugal, thousands of hectares are still managed exactly this way—in a sustainable agroforestry system called Dahesh in Spain or Mont ado in Portugal [1]. Dahesh is home to a special local pig breed, Ibérico pig, capable of transforming the essential fats from the acorns into its fatty tissues, which gives the meat specific aroma
Freely roaming Ibérico pigs in Dahesh are just one example of how trees can be utilized in farming, the full potential of trees in sustainable agriculture is much greater and gains on popularity in recent years.
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