Highlights•Modeling shows agroforestry's promising ability to buffer crops from climate
extremes.•Agroforestry can increase adaptive capacity, and help cope with risk or …

Coffee is deemed to be a high-risk crop in light of upcoming climate changes. Agroforestry
practices have been proposed as a nature-based strategy for coffee farmers to mitigate and …

Agroforestry is a land management practice where trees are grown around or among crops
or pastureland. This integration of agriculture and forestry is frequently seen as an option …

Background Disentangling nutrient acquisition strategies between trees and crops is central
to understanding positive nutrient interactions in agroforestry systems for improved low-input …

Cocoa agroforestry is perceived as potential adaptation strategy to sub‐optimal or adverse
environmental conditions such as drought. We tested this strategy over wet, dry and …

The response of coffee (Coffea arabica L.) agronomical performance to changes in climate
and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration ([CO 2]) is uncertain. Improving our …

To promote greater sustainability in agriculture, development of agroecology is increasingly
being invoked. What are the conditions for establishing agroecological production in tropical …

Climate change is expected to have strong implications for smallholder coffee farmers and
implementing adaptation measures would lessen their vulnerabilities. Adaptation measures …

Hypotheses on the existence of a universal “Root Economics Spectrum”(RES) have
received arguably the least attention of all trait spectra, despite the key role root trait …

Abstract In Central America, coffee is mainly grown in agroforestry systems. This practice
modifies the microclimate, which, in turn, influences coffee growth and development …