A midterm review was recently conducted on our project FSC/2014/012 “Improving sustainable productivity in farming systems and enhanced livelihoods through adoption of evergreen agriculture”, or Trees for Food Security, led by the World Agroforestry Centre. This four-year project, which commenced in June 2012, is funded by the AIFSRC ($5.4m), with additional funding ($1.26m) from the CGIAR Research Programme 6 (Forests, Trees and Agroforestry). The aim of this project is to enhance food security for resource-poor rural people in eastern Africa through research that underpins national programmes to scale up the use of trees within farming systems in Ethiopia and Rwanda and then scale out successes to relevant agro-ecological zones in Uganda and Burundi.