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A key concern in developing agroforestry nomenclature for the United States and Canada is overlap and confusion with mainstream land use management disciplines, for example forestry, agriculture, and livestock production. A fundamental need was to develop a definition and criteria that would effectively distinguish practices that are agroforestry from those that are not (Garrett et al., 1994). Application of the four criteria defining agroforestry (intentional, intensive, integrative, and interactive) provides the key to determine what is and is not an agroforestry practice. Using these criteria, we have the basis to explain how variations of common land use practices can be properly described as agroforestry. The following examples are agroforestry because they satisfy all four of the criteria defining agroforestry.