Hosing down hype but not burying hope
Ten years ago there were high hopes that an oil-bearing tree or shrub could be part of the answer to the world’s quest for biofuel. By now the ‘hype’ has almost been forgotten. As in most of these...
Category: CRP6-Forests, Trees and Agroforestry
Rob Finlayson
Robert Finlayson is the Southeast Asia program's regional communications specialist. As well as writing stories for the Centre's website, he devises and supervises strategies for projects and the countries in the Southeast Asia region, including scripting and producing videos, supervising editors and translators and also assisting with resource mobilization.
Trees for wood energy and land restoration
True or false?: Extraction of wood energy is a threat to forested landscapes. Extraction of wood energy is an opportunity for forested landscapes. That was the opening statement at a discussion forum on sustainable wood energy at the...
Agroforestry can help mitigate climate change in India
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...
Private companies partner with small producers to create sustainable supply chains of the future
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...
Overcoming hurdles: agroforestry as a means to reaching national climate targets in Africa
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...
With trees on farms, climate-change mitigation is a co-benefit of broader socioeconomic gains
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...