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Lesson 3
Agroforestry Systems, subsystems, Practices, AFS
Classifications,
AFS on Nature and Arrangement of Components

Intended Learning Outcomes:

At the end of the lesson, the student should be able to:

(a) define Agroforestry (AF) Systems, Subsystem, Practices, AF
Classification, AF on Nature and Arrangement of
Components.
(b) differentiate Agroforestry Systems, Subsystem, Practices, AF
Classification, AF on Nature and Arrangement of
Components.

Agroforestry can take several forms based on crops raised or
components, arrangement of components, interactions in time and
space.

Types of Agroforestry Systems

In order that the reader may easily understand how agroforestry
systems were names, the types of agroforestry systems is simply
illustrated in figure 1.

Agroforestry Practices

crops livestock mixed
Practices
Agrisilvicultural Silvopastoral Agrisilvipastoral

 Trees in contour hedgerows – alley cropping, alley farming, hedgerow cropping
 Trees in strips – corridor system
 Trees in mixed system – taungya system, traditional system
 Trees on plot boundaries – live fences

Figure 1: Illustration of Types of Agroforestry Systems