What is "agroforestry"

n. An agricultural approach of using the interactive benefits from combining trees and shrubs with crops and/or livestock.

Agroforestry or agro-sylviculture is a land use management system in which trees or shrubs are grown around or among crops or pastureland. It combines shrubs and trees in agricultural and forestry technologies to create more diverse, productive, profitable, healthy, ecologically sound, and sustainable land-use systems.