Yale Environment 360: As an ambitious program in Colombia demonstrates, combining grazing and agriculture with tree cultivation can coax more food from each acre, boost farmers incomes, restore degraded landscapes, and make farmland more resilient to climate change.
Over the last two decades, cattle rancher Carlos Hernando Molina has replaced 220 acres of open pastureland with trees, shrubs, and bushy vegetation. But he hasnt eliminated the cows. Today, his land in southwestern Colombia more closely resembles a...