Alley cropping is an agroforestry practice where food or annual crops are grown in the passages (alleys) formed between rows of woody perennial trees or shrubs.

• Relay cropping: Sowing a second crop into the standing first crop before harvest.
• Inter-cropping: Growing two or more crops simultaneously in the same field with a distinct row arrangement, generally both annuals.
• Alley cropping: Specifically defined as cultivating arable annual crops in the alleys between hedgerows of woody perennial shrubs or trees.
• Multiple cropping: General term for harvesting two or more crops from the same land in a single year.