Extension support could catalyse the adoption of soil erosion control technologies by farmers, say Barungi et al in a study published in The Journal of Sustainable Development. Low productivity caused by soil erosion is a big challenge for...

The carbon content of soils is improving in parts of East and Southeast Asia, while the public discourse is mostly about soil and land health degradation. This is similar to the pattern of tree cover or forest transition...

Inevitably, agroforestry is complex but some agroforests can be more complex than others, say Agustin Mercado and Lua Hoang Thi   Both the landscapes and human cultures of Northwest Viet Nam are complex. The landscape is mountainous, with...

Over-hunting in tropical forests changes the forest itself, say Rhett D. Harrison, Sylvester Tan, Joshua B. Plotkin, Ferry Slik, Matteo Detto, Tania Brenes, Akira Itoh and Stuart J. Davies   People have hunted in tropical forests ever since...

To respond to the Government of Indonesia’s need for development that produces less greenhouse gas emissions, the World Agroforestry Centre and WWF Indonesia conducted training in the specially created methodology known as Land-Use Planning for Low-Emissions Development Strategies,...