The recently launched Ghana Agroforestry Network will bring together civil society organizations on the theme of ‘agroforestry, tree planting and sustainable land management for livelihood empowerment, food security, and climate change adaptation’.

Ghana News Agency quotes Mr Lovans Owusu-Takyi, lecturer at the Kumasi Institute of Tropical Agriculture (KITA), as saying that agroforestry practices such as alley cropping, food woodlots, windbreaks, life fencing and crop rotation can enable farmers to integrate beneficial trees with food crops.

The current practices of many smallholder farmers in Ghana – such as shifting cultivation, bush burning, deforestation and over utilisation of chemicals – contribute to climate change and reduce soil fertility. By integrating fast growing multi-purpose and nitrogen fixing trees, farmers can improve soil fertility and restore degraded lands as well as provide alternative income.

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