Ok, your interpretation of it sounds basically identical to restoration agriculture by Mark Shepard (rows of trees and pasture, savannah silvopastures) which is actually what we've been working towards the past half decade here... Slowly. 

 Yeah - there's nothing super new with it for me. It just feels like a slightly different approach to stacking plants together. I like the resets via pruning that stimulate growth periodically & provide mulch. It's a nice approach.