Agroforestry is a land management concept, which deliberately integrates perennial woody vegetation into crop and/or animal production systems and therefore combines the positive effects that growing trees have on soils, site water relations and biodiversity with sustainable agricultural activities. It offers opportunities to generate an income from the cultivation of annual crops or fodder plants from the very year of establishment. Income generation opportunities keep increasing, once the woody components of the agroforestry systems become productive as well, while also contributing to both climate adaptation and mitigation.
"Shen" NGO started the first agroforestry project ever implemented in Armenia in Shenavan, Lori, in 2024. here we supports an agroforestry initiative group (AIG) of villagers, who collaboratively establish and manage the agroforestry plot of 7 ha on community lands.
