Virginia Tech Agroforestry

Our mission

We focus on the biophysical, social, and economic factors affecting adoption, management, and maintenance of agroforestry systems.

We conduct research, teach students, and partner with stakeholders to increase awareness, support application, improve profitability, enhance ecosystem services, and ensure permanence of agroforestry systems.

About us

Virginia Tech's agroforestry team is a collaborative, trans-disciplinary group of faculty, associates, students and staff working to advance and expand these practices and systems in temperate and tropical regions through innovative research, education, and outreach programming.

What is Agroforestry?

Agroforestry is an intensive and holistic land use system that optimizes the economic, social, and ecological benefits created by comanaging trees and crops and/or livestock in the same space.

We focus on the following in our research, teaching, and extension:

• New Markets, New Products, New Values
• Adoption, Adaptation, Permanence
• Advances in Technology and Operations
• Economic Insights and Financial Tools
• Production Science
• Environmental Benefits
• Culture, Communication, Context
• Policy and Practices
• International Agroforestry