With growing stress on natural resources, emergency workers have begun to examine their interventions. Environmental mismanagement can be fatal. Focusing on approaches that are built on the Sustainable Development Goals and with the assistance of organizations, like... The post Humanitarians struggle to address environment: ‘It’s nice but it’s not crucial’ appeared first on Agroforestry World.

The Food Tree and Crop Portfolio helps with the selection of food-tree species along with complementary vegetable, pulse and staple crops. The post Trees nurture nutrition appeared first on Agroforestry World.

    6 de noviembre de 2018. El objetivo de nuestro nuevo proyecto Árboles en Finca es identificar y apoyar enfoques innovadores para integrar a los árboles en los paisajes agrícolas. Especialmente, en los países tropicales en desarrollo... The post Árboles en Finca: un cambio para la biodiversidad en Honduras appeared first on Agroforestry World.

Productive land leads to many benefits but achieving productivity needs a change of thinking. The post Land restoration is a strategic investment in Ethiopia appeared first on Agroforestry World.

  The Regreening Africa project is charting new paths into complex, unmapped territory in its effort to restore 1 million hectares of land in eight countries within five years. The goal of the Reversing Land Degradation in Africa... The post New paradigm unfolds to rapidly regreen Africa appeared first on Agroforestry World.

Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have pledged to put millions of hectares under restoration by 2030. The post 2.5 million hectares pledged to be restored in the Caucasus and Central Asia appeared first on Agroforestry World.

  The Group brought together experts from ASEAN and beyond to provide critical input to key regional guiding documents   The Mekong Expert Group on Agroforestry for Food and Nutrition Security, Sustainable Agriculture and Land Restoration was formed in early... The post Mekong Expert Group on Agroforestry: impact on ASEAN appeared first on Agroforestry World.

  The Mountain Futures Innovation Platform in Yunnan, China is a new way to better understand upland landscapes for sustainable development.   The Mountain Futures Innovation Platform was inaugurated on 11 January 2019 by World Agroforestry and the... The post Agricultural innovation in the mountains: a new direction appeared first on Agroforestry World.

    The endorsement of the Guidelines by the region’s ministers of agriculture and forestry paves the way for implementation to restore degraded landscapes, improve food security and livelihoods, enhance farmers’ resilience and meet nationally determined contributions to... The post ASEAN Guidelines for Agroforestry Development set to revolutionize land use in Southeast Asia appeared first on Agroforestry World.

Trees are important sources of income for many women in the drylands of West Africa, yet women often have little say in decisions about how land and trees are managed or how household income is used. This story... The post Challenging gender norms around trees and land restoration in West Africa: can research be transformative? appeared first on Agroforestry World.

  Researchers have created a new tool to measure biological diversity in farm land, which will prove useful for the purposes of the Convention on Biological Diversity.   The United Nations Biodiversity Conference held 17–29 November 2018 in... The post Trees on farms: a biodiversity assessment tool appeared first on Agroforestry World.

Zero-budget natural farming (ZBNF) is reported to be followed by 8% of farmers in Andhra Pradesh, making it probably the world’s most successful natural farming approach. “Adoption rates elsewhere of nature-friendly agriculture rarely exceed 1%,” says Vijay Kumar,...