Social forestry
Social forestry and agroforestry have close relationship because
- Both sciences have woody perennials trees.
- Both systems need trees for sustaining the farming systems.
- Both sciences have two fold relationships that are vertical and horizontal relationship because agroforestry is a part of social forestry with vertical relationship, and both social forestry and agroforestry involve farmers and have horizontal relationship.
Social forestry passes research results to farmers and its feedback to the agroforestry scientists.