Agroforestry Tree Seeds for Farmers

Tree Seed Toolkit > About this CD-ROM

The purpose of this website is to provide development workers with resources and some guidelines that can be useful in planning sustainable production of seeds and seedlings of agroforestry species.

The development of this website was inspired on the work conducted by the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and its partner organizations on scaling-up tree seed production.

The website contains a low resolution PDF version of the toolkit, a number of technical videoclips that were prepared and resource materials for further reading. It was not our purpose to provide an exhaustive list of extension materials, but to provide materials that complemented the information provided in the toolkit.

We are grateful to the Netherlands Government, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Education and
Development Division (DSO) for funding provided to develop this website and to Jan Beniest, Tony Simons and Bashir Jama for stimulating this effort. We are also grateful to VVOB - the Flemish Association for Development Cooperation and technical Assistance for seconding Roeland to ICRAF and cofunding the production of the Tree Seed Toolkit, DANIDA for seconding Jens-Peter B Lillesø to ICRAF on a project on sustainable seed systems for Africa in collaboration with the Danish Centre for Forest and Landscape Planning (the Danida Forest Seed Centre has been integrated within the Danish Centre for Forest and Landscape Planning). We appreciate very highly the comments of anybody who contributed to the technical editing of this toolkit (Søren Moestrup, Lars Schmidt, Marcus Robbins, Jim Roshetko) and to all that have contributed useful comments (Tony Simons, Jean-Marc Boffa, and Esben Brandi-Hansen).

This website contains copies of some resources developed by the World Agroforestry Centre or links to websites developed by other organizations or individuals such as the DANIDA Forest Seed Centre, the Indonesia Forest Seed Project, Marcus Robbins, or the editors of the Árboles de Centroamérica manual of OFI and CATIE.

No material from this website, including the materials available from other organisations and individuals, can be used for commercial purposes (please see the copyright and disclaimer). We also request that you use the complete materials and that you do not distribute or quote sections of these materials. Under all circumstances should you respect the copyright information provided in the original materials.

WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE (ICRAF)