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Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources and Environment partners with The Nature Conservancy on $60 million grant to advance agroforestry

The USDA-funded agroforestry project will help producers adopt more climate-friendly practices such as silvopasture, which integrates trees with grazing livestock operations on the same land. Agroforestry is a form of climate-smart agriculture that integrates trees, shrubs, crops, and livestock into a single farming system.
Posted over 2 years ago  in Virginia Tech News.

The college will receive $2.25 million of the USDA-funded project to help mid-Atlantic and Appalachian farmers reduce carbon emissions, improve water quality, enhance biodiversity, and increase profitability.

The College of Natural Resources and Environment at Virginia Tech is part of a $60 million, five-year grant led by The Nature Conservancy for a project titled "Expanding Agroforestry Production and Markets for Producer Profitability and Climate Stabilization." The project aims to advance agroforestry across the eastern United States and Hawaii and is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) through the Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry Partnership Initiative.

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