With all this forestry serves agriculture in the end. This is important
and highly desirable, and agroforestry in this way even helps to extend
the preservation and management of woody plants to areas outside the
forest. However: The tropical rain forests are burning! Their degradation
proceeds at alarming rates. What - if anything at all - can agroforestry
do to stop tropical forest destruction, to help solving the enormous
problems connected with the rain forest preservation and sustainable
management?