Transforming lives and landscapes with trees
Transforming lives and landscapes with trees
A series of policy dialogues were undertaken as part of the ACIAR...
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Which agroforestry systems and practices will best help smallholder...
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Which agroforestry systems and practices will best help smallholder farmers in the Andes adapt to a changing environment? Finding answers to this question is the task ahead of Sarah-Lan Mathez-Stiefel, a researcher with the World Agroforestry Centre, as...
The proposed Sustainable Development Goals might just be able to “turn...
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The baobab, known as the iconic tree of Africa, is the first plant...
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As a Scandinavian, two things people often ask me about are, first, the...
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As a Scandinavian, two things people often ask me about are, first, the Vikings and, second, how come we care so much about the environment. Curiously, the two are linked, starting with the role of trees in the...
Held every year as part of World Water Week, ‘Eye on Asia’ aims to...
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A new project in Rwanda aims to mitigate the effects of climate change...
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Farmers in West Africa are now growing fruit and vegetables on once...
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The use of volunteer farmer trainers has more than doubled volumes of...
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Few global disasters in history have had an international profile equal...
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Kenya’s first verified REDD+ project has helped transform a landscape...
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Six thought leaders on climate will put forward their ideas on how to...
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Ramachandran P.K. Nair has received this year’s Award in Forest Science...
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Indigenous people around the globe, who are maintaining areas of forest...
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Chinese news agency, Xinhua, reports that Vietnam is one of the world’s...
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With the International Year of Family Farming taking place in 2013,...
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Diversifying production could help farmers in West and Central Africa...
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A macaúba, uma espécie de palmeira nativa do Brasil, ganhará um novo...
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Farmers in Unguja will benefit from a Sh2.8 million programme that...
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The International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO), of...
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A new project that develops co-investment schemes for environmental...
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A new project that develops co-investment schemes for environmental services has started in the Philippines By Kharmina Anit and Joan Urquiola Most smallholding farmers in rural areas are vulnerable to biophysical and socio-political shocks and have...
Agroforestry is helping farmers in Mali increase their resilience to...
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Nigeria is home to a wide range of plant species with medicinal value,...
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Smallholders’ agroforests can supply products for ‘green’ markets and...
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Smallholders’ agroforests can supply products for ‘green’ markets and help improve poor farmers’ livelihoods, say Roger Leakey and Patrick van Damme By Robert Finlayson Across the planet, particularly in developed countries, there is an increasing...
Watershed areas are the most appropriate landscape units to manage...
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African leaders have agreed to end hunger and cut poverty in half by...
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Since the seventeenth century, the Sahel drought has...
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Feeding infants complementary food after a period of exclusive breast...
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Feeding infants complementary food after a period of exclusive breast milk is critical for healthy development, say World Agroforestry Researchers in northern Thailand By Surachet Jinakaew, Posri Leelapat and Anna Roesler In 2013, a high percentage...
Agroforestry has been practised for thousands of years by farmers...
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Agroforestry has been practised for thousands of years by farmers throughout the world, including in Sweden after the last ice age By Elisabeth Simelton ‘Agroforestry: that’s just something they invented for developing countries. There is no...
Cultivation of the wild indigenous fruit tree, Dobera glabra, could...
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Cultivation of the wild indigenous fruit tree, Dobera glabra, could help to achieve greater food security in dry regions of Ethiopia. Dobera glabra has great potential as an agroforestry species in dry areas due to its ability to...