Could bamboo-based agroforestry systems be the latest kind of climate smart agriculture?

Bamboo is not just this new hipster material used for producing alternative clothes. Bamboo can be used in agroforestry systems by farmers in subtropical, semi-arid regions of the world to create sources of income, reclaim degraded land and fight the climate crisis.

Those are the findings of a recent study, published in the journal, Agroforestry Systems, this April, entitled Bamboo-based agroforestry system (Dendrocalamus strictus + sesame–chickpea) for enhancing productivity in semi-arid tropics of central India.