Forests are among Latin America and the Caribbean’s (LAC’s) crown jewels. The region boasts roughly a third of the world’s forests, half of its tropical forests, and a quarter of its mangroves (Blackman et al. 2014). This ...

Use of leguminous trees to provide shade, especially in perennial crops, would appear to be an ancient agricultural practice, probably coinciding with the domestication of perennials such as tea, coffee and cocoa. Leguminous ...