Quantifying Nutritional Yield within Morocco’s Agroforestry Systems

Nate Cherok

Agroforestry is a traditional method of land management that produces a variety of crops in a sustainable fashion. However, there are few studies that document the importance of this practice to dietary quality and nutrition (Ickowitz et al. 2022). The fruits produced by trees on farms that practice agroforestry provide key supplements to diets including micronutrients that are lacking in other commonly grown crops. The goal of this research is to analyze the impact agroforestry has on Moroccan farms and diets through the quantification of nutritional yield (as an indicator of productivity) and tree concentration in fields across three sites. The study uses edible yield approximations to estimate the amount of macronutrients and micronutrients produced by the fields in terms of the number of adult USDA Daily Value amounts satisfied, standardized by area to account for variation in field size. It aims to add these new metrics to the field of agroforestry.

Major: 
Geography
Exhibition Category: 
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Exhibition Format: 
Poster Presentation
Campus: 
University Park
Faculty Sponsor: 
Bronwen Powell
Poster Number: 
51156