Transforming lives and landscapes with trees
Transforming lives and landscapes with trees
At a workshop to establish a new Environment and Forestry Research...
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“How can we ensure food security in a world with ever more people,...
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Expanding women’s entrepreneurial skills and building their capacities...
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Local government agencies in Ha Tinh and Quang Binh provinces are fully...
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Local government agencies in Ha Tinh and Quang Binh provinces are fully supportive of more trees on farms to help farmers adapt to climate change On 11–14 March 2015, the regional project team from Bogor, Indonesia visited...
Researchers in the Philippines found that farmers’ recognition of...
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Researchers in the Philippines found that farmers’ recognition of services provided by trees is an important but insufficient prerequisite for agroforestry adoption. More education is needed. By Christine Marie D. Habito and Nina Astrid Fenger Do...
ICRAF South Asia and the Central Agroforestry Research Institute (CAFRI...
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The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) is strengthening its partnership...
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Under the Biofuels Programme, one of ICRAF’s partners, Jawaharlal Nehru...
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A 2-day regional workshop on Quality Planting Material Production and...
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The East African hit TV series "Shamba Shape Up" is partnering with the...
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Late last year a group of evangelical environmentalists associated with...
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Is a forest simply a collection of trees? Can we really apply the same...
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Is a forest simply a collection of trees? Can we really apply the same term that we use for the treasure-houses of biodiversity, replete with their own complex ecosystems that harbour a myriad of animals, plants and fungi...
My first visit to IITA was in 1982. As a young scientist with the Delft...
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Key to achieving sustainable food and nutritional security for a...
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Key to achieving sustainable food and nutritional security for a burgeoning human population will be “to restore, regenerate and sustain the natural resource base for future food production. A large part of this is to restore degraded lands...
The story of how a sustainable supply chain for açaí berries was...
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Agriculture as practiced in most parts of the world today will simply...
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Agriculture as practiced in most parts of the world today will simply not feed a human population of 9 billion by 2050. Innovation in food production is needed, and it needs to be adopted on a wide scale....
The work of the World Agroforestry Centre in encouraging farmers to...
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A new campaign video from Oxfam International highlights how women...
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A climate-smart agriculture transformation is needed across Africa to...
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Through combining traditional knowledge with sustainable land...
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Focus on Gender - the gender newsletter of the Forests, Trees, and...
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“One of the world’s largest biodiversity hotspots is to be found...
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“One of the world’s largest biodiversity hotspots is to be found in the Hengduan Mountains located in southwest China. More recently, the region has been suffering the devastating effects of climate change, with increased episodes of drought registered...
Cambodia’s food security and rural livelihoods are under pressure...
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Cambodia’s food security and rural livelihoods are under pressure from a range of influences. Researchers are keen to explore the role agroforestry can play in meeting the challenges By Prasit Wangpakapattanawong ‘Cambodia is one of the...
When I was a child, my mother used to tell me over and over: “Eat a...
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By Seline Meijer A new publication looking at the gender dimensions of...
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By Seline Meijer A new publication looking at the gender dimensions of agroforestry in Malawi shows that both men and women play a key role in decision-making regarding tree planting and tree management, which has important implications for...
Blantyre, March 6: To boost the quality of locally-grown fruit...
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“You do not need a diploma to plant a tree.” This was Professor Wangari...
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“You do not need a diploma to plant a tree.” This was Professor Wangari Maathai’s smart response to people who were questioning her decision to train illiterate rural women on how to grow and nurture trees. To celebrate...
AGRICULTURE across Africa must undergo a significant transformation to...
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Scientists have developed a computer model for Nepal that shows income...
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Scientists have developed a computer model for Nepal that shows income from different agricultural scenarios or market policies. But modelling is still not properly recognised By Rachmat Mulia and Betha Lusiana In January 2015 in Kathmandu,...