During an ITTO/AFF Forest Policy Day panel discussion held at the World Agroforestry Centre on 28 June 2012, keynote speaker Mafa Chipeta said “A prosperous future for Africa is best achieved through ensuring greater productivity of its agriculture...

Climate change is expected to have different effects on different regions and ecosystems. A recent study in the Advance Online Publication (AOP) of Nature shows that in Africa, increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide will favour tree growth over tropical...

Written by Walter van Opzeeland Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) is a payment scheme that rewards the conservation of forests to prevent emissions of green house gasses that cause climate change, but the concept is...

By Isaiah Esipisu  As the curtains close for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio +20) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a top agroforestry expert Dr. Dennis Garrity, has urged African farmers, experts and leaders to consider...

By Isaiah Esipisu One way of ensuring a green economy especially in Africa is by embracing the system of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration of Resources (FMNR) delegates attending the RIO +20 conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil learnt....

By Isaiah Esipisu As a result of the fast changing climatic conditions in the world, arable lands have been converted into semi arid, while formerly semi arid regions are now arid. However, the opposite is happening in Israel....