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How Agave Agroforestry Can Restore Drylands and Strengthen Climate Resilience

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By Ronnie Cummins, Dada Maheshvarananda
| ZNetwork
Sixty to seventy percent of Mexico’s terrain is classified as arid or semiarid desert, typically with no rain for eight to nine months a year. La pipa, the water truck, brings enough water to supply farms for a day or two at most. Meanwhile, 86 percent of Mexican farmers lack a well and are unlikely to have one. In arid and semiarid drylands, deep irrigation wells are very expensive, water rights are hard to obtain, and many, if not most, underground aquifers are overexploited.
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How agave agroforestry can restore drylands and strengthen climate resilience

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By Ronnie Cummins
| NationofChange
This adapted excerpt is from The Regenerative Agriculture Solution by Ronnie Cummins and André Leu (Chelsea Green, 2024) and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) by permission of the authors. It was adapted and produced for the web by Earth | Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
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How Agave Agroforestry Can Restore Drylands And Strengthen Climate Resilience – Analysis

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By Ronnie Cummins
| Eurasia Review Verified
The agave-powered agroforestry and livestock management system is an example of how native desert plants, cultivated as part of an agroforestry system, can regenerate drylands and provide inexpensive animal feed, taking pressure off overgrazed rangelands. ixty to seventy percent of Mexico’s terrain is classified as arid or semiarid desert, typically with no rain for eight to nine months a year. La pipa, the water truck, brings enough water to supply farms for a day or two at most.
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