Dr. John Lynam, Board chair
The Board of Trustees of the World Agroforestry Centre provides programmatic, governance and financial oversight to ensure that the Centre is managed effectively and efficiently, and remains focused on long-term development goals and high quality and relevant science. The Centre continues to deepen its science domain and regional programmes in line with the organizational strategy, assesses its outcomes, and aligns its programmes with a number of CRPs to which it contributes. Programme linkages and integration within and external to ICRAF are critical for a complex research field such as agroforestry, and such integration is framed by the new operational goal in the 2013 strategy, namely, greater cohesion, interdependence and alignment […]
Prof. Tony Simons, Director General
In 2000, the world’s countries and leading development agencies established the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which constituted a series of targets – to be achieved by 2015 – to address extreme poverty, disease, poor education and environmental degradation. Now is a good time to reflect on the contribution made by agroforestry.
A wide range of agroforestry practices and policies have helped hundreds of thousands of families in developing countries to improve their incomes and nutrition. Agroforestry has also played a vitally important role when it comes to tackling land degradation, low productivity, soil erosion and the loss of biodiversity […]
In Indonesia, most of the coffee is produced by South Sulawesi province, with the mountainous area of Toraja, as the acclaimed coffee-producing district. During the harvest season, family members will go to help picking coffee cherries in the gardens that are often located up on the hill. Some farmers would even stay for weeks, and only leave once the sacks are full of cherries.
