Western Agroforestry Case Studies Agroforestry is the intentional combining of agriculture and “working trees” to create productive and sustainable farms, ranches, and woodlands. Traditional applications include alley cropping, silvopasture, forest farming, riparian forest buffers, and windbreaks; other special and landscape-scale applications are emerging. Agroforestry is also a means to , This chapter provides an overview of research on the economic valuation of agroforestry in North America. Economists have two approaches for valuing land-use systems: (1) financial analysis examines returns to investments from the landowner’s perspective and typically focuses on enterprise- or farm-level outcomes and (2) economic analysis expands the analysis to include societal impacts , Agroforestry practices in Madhya Pradesh (MP), India existed in the primordial times, which can be evidenced almost in every region of the state; howev-er, the pace of scientific inclusion in agroforestry and its extension is quite slow. There is lack of priority and limited work has been done related to agrofore-stry practices, possibly due to the presence of large natural forest area in the , Agroforestry Research Networks for Africa (of ICRAF) Bharatiya Agro Industries Foundation (India) Cooperative for American Relief Everywhere Centro Agronomico Tropical de Investigation y Ensefianza Central Arid Zone Research Institute (Jodhpur, India) Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research Canadian International Development Agency Comite Permanent Inter-etats de Lutte Contre , Implementation of agroforestry practices can reduce soil ero-sion from cultivated fields and moderate the predicted increases in erosion rates that will come with climate change. The rate of erosion depends on many factors, including precipitation amount and intensity, soil characteristics, topography of the terrain, and land cover characteristics. Climate change is predicted to increase , .