Sustainable farm productivity and enhanced livelihoods through Evergreen Agriculture in eastern Africa
A major action-research project—Trees for Food Security—is being launched in eastern Africa to encourage and support farmers in the region to grow trees on farms for improved food and nutritional security.
The project will be launched with workshops in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on the 6–7th, and in Kigali, Rwanda on 9–10th August 2012.
Coordinated by the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in partnership with the governments of Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda, the four-country, four-year project (2012–2016) is funded largely by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), and targets distinct agroecologies that are home to over 30 million rural people, out of whom an estimated 10 million face acute food security problems.
It will be implemented by a multidisciplinary partnership of international and national institutions.
