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Syntropic Glossary: Fundamentals and Key Terms

Get familiar with the key technical terms used in syntropic agriculture—such as placenta, selective weeding, and stratification. This course introduces the essential concepts and vocabulary needed to understand, implement, and manage agroforestry systems guided by natural succession.

What you will learn

  • What do selective weeding, placenta, natural succession, stratification and other terms we use in our daily work in agroforestry mean
  • The context of degraded soil
  • Use grasses, legumes and fertilizers
  • Planting trees at definite spacing versus at high density
  • How to perform mechanized selective weeding with a prototype cart attached to a brush cutter
  • How to classify plants into colonizers, secondary and climax plants
  • Understanding colonization and accumulation systems
  • How to manage density and shade
  • How to define the placenta (placenta 1, placenta 2), learn about its functions, management and examples
  • Learn about the concept and importance of stratification and examples