Make Dynamic Agroforestry the New Standard

ECOTOP is redefining how farming works with nature, not against it

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Why ECOTOP

We didn’t adopt Dynamic Agroforestry. We developed it.

14countries
10,000+farmers
5,600+hectares of DAF

Born in the field, not in a classroom

In the 1990s, after a visit from Ernst Götsch, Joachim Milz and a group of pioneer farmers in Alto Beni developed Dynamic Agroforestry on their own plots. The mix made the difference: farmers’ knowledge and agronomists with curiosity and a critical eye, looking for answers that no classroom could give.

18 years of side-by-side trial data

The Sara Ana long-term trial with FiBL compares DAF cocoa with monoculture on the same site, with peer-reviewed results. As the pioneers of the method, ECOTOP has been part of most DAF research to date.

The same mix, in the field today

Our trainers are farmers and agronomists. Methods are passed on plot by plot, in the field, not on paper.

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Carbon sequestration

+10.4t CO2/ha/yr

more than conventional monoculture

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Biomass carbon after 14 years, averaged annually. Krause et al. (2025), Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment — SysCom Bolivia.

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Who is ECOTOP?

Get in touch with our experienced team

Dr. Joachim Milz

Chairman, ECOTOP Foundation
Co-Founder, ECOTOP Suisse
Portrait of Johannes Milz, Agroforestry Specialist at ECOTOP

Johannes Milz

Board Member,
Climate Lead, ECOTOP Suisse

Luis Franck Canedo

Executive Director ECOTOP Foundation

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