The successional agroforestry systems are shaped differently, intelligent green to produce food. This model is considered suitable for agriculture in the tropics, regions where the model plow and bare soil proves destructive, counterproductive and therefore unsustainable in the long term.

They are intentionally planted forests in accordance with the principles of natural ecological succession, but with plants selected and managed for, on the one hand, to fill specific ecological niches, and others, generate some benefit or product for humans.

Deploy an APS and handle it is to reintegrate themselves and co-create with nature. The SAF have the amazing ability to, while producing food, fiber and wood (for energy use and building), fertile soils and create living, reforest the landscape, attracting native wildlife, help regulate the hydrological cycle local recharge groundwater, protect and restore slopes and become more stable, resilient and fertile over time.