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Agroforestry in the United States has faced some unique challenges as an emerging land use strategy, many of which are being overcome. First, concepts and methodologies were originally obtained from international experiences primarily in developing, tropical countries with very different ecological and socioeconomic contexts. In recent decades, agroforestry in the United States and Canada (and Europe) has made huge strides to refine relevant concepts and methodologies that fit the temperate zone and the Western, industrialized realities in which we live. As such, domestic agroforestry has evolved at the intersection of the well‐established fields of agriculture, horticulture, and forestry. As an emergent applied science, agroforestry has aligned with agroecology and established a research–education–development infrastructure that integrates across these well‐established but separate disciplines.