E-story on EverGreen Agriculture

A new digital story titled ‘Re-greening Africa's landscape’ spotlights EverGreen agriculture, which involves integrating trees into farming landscapes, and explains why more and more countries in Africa are embracing the practice.

By using the right combinations of trees, crops and livestock, farmers are reaping an array of short- and long-term benefits, such as higher and healthier crop productivity, a wider range of marketable products, and greater resilience to climate-change-related weather upheavals.

The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) has since the 1980s worked with partners and farmers to research the agroforestry systems that work best for smallholder farmers in the developing world; EverGreen agriculture has shown its power to raise and stabilize staple crop yields and at the same time improve the natural environment.

According to UN Drylands Ambassador and ICRAF Senior Fellow Dennis Garrity, EverGreen agriculture “allows us to glimpse a future of more environmentally sound farming where much of our annual food crop production occurs under a full canopy of trees.”

The digital story states that the governments of Malawi, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Mali and 14 other African countries have committed to promoting the use of trees on agricultural landscapes.

The story was produced by WRENmedia for the European Initiative on Agricultural Research for Development (EIARD), and funded by the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC).

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