Agroforestry World
In an article published in the Huffington Post India, Tony Simons, Director General (ICRAF) says that if India wants to plant more trees to increase its forest cover without taking land away from people, it would have to...
Leveraging their buying power and financial resources, companies are working to create the sustainable supply chains we need in a changing climate. Ones in which farmers and companies prosper together. Where farmers will produce more using ecologically sound...
A side event at the on-going UN climate talks discussed challenges that African countries face in implementing actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and suggested viable low-carbon pathways to overcome these hurdles. Nearly 150 countries worldwide have outlined...
In a ‘Letter to the Editor’ published in the Guardian Development Blog, Professor Roger Leakey urges a closer look at agroforestry’s potential as a pathway for both mitigating climate change and fighting hunger, malnutrition and poverty. Leakey, who...
12 million hectares of land are lost globally to degradation and deforestation annually. Africa has not been spared from this destruction, putting at risk food security and livelihoods. A side event hosted by the World Agroforestry Centre at...
A side event at the UN climate change conference now underway in Paris (COP21) urged a new, easier-to-understand way to discuss trees and climate change mitigation: Rainfall. Rainfall made through evapotranspiration from plant matter cools the air around,...