The report, Agroforestry and Climate Outcomes: Literature Review and Technical Guidance, covers the seven main practice standards related to agroforestry: alley cropping, forest farming, hedgerow plantings, riparian forest buffers, silvopasture, tree and shrub establishment, and windbreak/shelterbelt establishment and renovation. The report synthesizes research on benefits and best practices associated with agroforestry.

In addition to developing practice-specific guidance, the working group undertook an analysis of how the three main models for predicting biomass carbon accumulation over time (USDA COMET Farm/Planner, USDA/USFS Forest Vegetation Simulator, and USDA/USFS iTree) compared to empirical datasets that quantify these same biomass carbon outcomes. This comparison provides a novel way to evaluate the performance of the most commonly used models in forestry systems applied to agroforestry systems. The results are included in the report.

SUMMARY

TWG MEMBERS

• Nate Lawrence (chair), Savanna Institute

• Aakash Ahamed, Working Trees Inc. and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

• Ashley Conway-Anderson, University of Missouri

• Kris Covey, Skidmore College

• Lingxi Chenyang, University of Utah

• Siddarth Machado, The Nature Conservancy

• Chloe Wardropper, University of Illinois

  Research Assistants:

  • Emily Stutzman, Caney Fork Farms, Skidmore College

  • Charlie Mize, Mizelia, LLC

NETWORK REPORT

• Agroforestry and Climate Outcomes: Literature Review and Technical Guidance

NETWORK BRIEF