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July 2, 2014
Smart Tree-Invest inception workshop in Indonesia

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July 1, 2014
(Foodtank) African Leaders Urge to Link Landscapes to People

The Landscapes for People, Food and Nature in Africa ...

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July 1, 2014
Evergreen Agriculture Team Visit Martyrs of Uganda Children’s Home,...

Martyrs of Uganda children’s home in Machakos County was the recipient...

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July 1, 2014
ICRAF Welcomes New DGIS Project Manager, Mr. Yacouba Ouedraogo

Development of the risk assessment tool in the DGIS project that seeks...

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July 1, 2014
ICRAF, East and Southern Africa region planning meeting

“The East Southern Africa (ESAf) strategy presents a clear roadmap that...

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June 30, 2014
The disconnect in forest and agriculture policy

The separation of farms and forests in policy is proving detrimental to...

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June 30, 2014
New bylaws needed for success with conservation agriculture in Malawi

Conservation agriculture is being promoted in Kasungu, central Malawi...

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June 27, 2014
Drylands forests and agroforestry systems

Agroforestry, and sustainable forest management and restoration,...

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Drylands forests and agroforestry systems Agroforestry, and sustainable forest management and restoration, promise hope for world’s threatened drylands. “We treat dryland trees as if they were inferior to rainforest trees,” claimed Lars Laestadius of the World Resources Institute, at a packed event taking...

June 27, 2014
Farmers learn from local certified seed grower

To build farmers’ capacity and encourage the development of farmer-...

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June 27, 2014
Menuntut Ilmu dari Penangkar Bibit Lokal

Dalam rangka meningkatkan kapasitas petani dan memfasilitasi...

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June 27, 2014
Toolkit training for climate change talks with farmers

As an important step in sharing experiences and methods, The World...

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June 26, 2014
(Malawi News Agency) Traditional leaders in KU for bylaws on...

As Conservation Agriculture (CA) is being promoted in the wake of...

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June 26, 2014
A rich offering of landscape knowledge

As part of its 40th anniversary celebrations, the journal Landscape and...

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June 26, 2014
Garrity explains Evergreen Agriculture

The practice of Evergreen Agriculture, essentially integrating trees...

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June 25, 2014
Experts to discuss solutions to landscape challenges in Africa

June 25 2014How will African farmers deal with climate change? Can we...

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June 25, 2014
“Little-known” but very important: the CGIAR

An article on the website of The University of Sheffield describes the...

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June 25, 2014
Forests and trees vital to human well-being

The 2014 State of the World’s Forests report outlines how forests and...

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June 25, 2014
Ambitious agroforestry project announced for Panama

The ‘Alliance for 1 Million’ reforestation project in Panama aims to...

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June 25, 2014
Genebank to preserve Indian mango varieties

The unique mango heritage of the Indian state of Odisha is being...

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June 24, 2014
Wooden it be good if we had more forests!

Typos aside, this is the theme of the 22nd Committee on Forestry (COFO...

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Wooden it be good if we had more forests! Typos aside, this is the theme of the 22nd Committee on Forestry (COFO) 2014 currently being held at FAO, 23-27June 2014. Officially entitled “Forests and People: Wood and Beyond,” COFO 22 is aimed at reviewing the state of...

June 23, 2014
Conservation Agriculture With Trees: Now available, a comprehensive...

Conservation agriculture with trees combines the best of Conservation...

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Conservation Agriculture With Trees: Now available, a comprehensive guide for extension  workers Conservation agriculture with trees combines the best of Conservation Agriculture with the best of Agroforestry to offer many benefits to landscapes and livelihoods. But its uptake is restricted by policy, cultural and technical issues, to name some factors....

June 23, 2014
Transforming cocoa with seedlings and services for farmers

Clutching her certificate, Hélène Kla Amenan was all smiles at her...

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Transforming cocoa with seedlings and services for farmers Clutching her certificate, Hélène Kla Amenan was all smiles at her graduation ceremony on 23 May 2014. After a seven-week intensive training, Hélène was now equipped with the skills to set up a Cocoa Village Centre in her village....

June 23, 2014
14th CGIAR scientist wins World Food Prize

The 2014 World Food Prize winner is Sanjaya Rajaram, a wheat breeder...

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June 23, 2014
Sustainable agriculture in Africa needs investment

“Now more than ever, innovative research on sustainable agriculture is...

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June 23, 2014
Agroforestry can stop land degradation

Participants at a global event to mark the World Day to Combat...

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June 19, 2014
REDD ready or not?

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest...

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REDD ready or not? Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation was thought to be a quick way to slow global warming. But after ten years of testing the international REDD framework, scientists express their doubts in three new publications,...

June 19, 2014
The fight against land degradation

“Land degradation is emerging as one of the major global environmental...

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June 19, 2014
Developed countries need to be more active in combatting degradation

On 17 June, the World Day to Combat Desertification, developed...

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June 18, 2014
The business of landscapes

If the scientists themselves cannot work out what a landscape is, what...

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The business of landscapes If the scientists themselves cannot work out what a landscape is, what hope do businesses have? Well, quite a lot, actually. In fact, there are many examples of big business engaging with local actors on a landscape scale,...

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