Agroforestry World
By Fraser Brown One of the hot topics at AFR100’s (as a contribution to the Bonn Challenge) inaugural event held in Addis Ababa on 11 and 12 October 2016 was, of course, finance. And with estimates that AFR100’s...
Concluding five years of AgFor, a multilateral project aimed at promoting agroforestry practices in Indonesia’s exotic Sulawesi region, participating farmers are now starting enterprises to process and market their products beyond their own village.
The Government of Myanmar is enthusiastic about the role of agroforestry in the future of the newly-democratic nation Myanmar (formerly Burma) is a newly democratic country. Centuries before, this country was rich in culture, natural resources and...
Fig trees were here when dinosaurs first roamed the planet. And today, just as they did 80 million years ago, Ficus species continue to bring nourishment, shade, water and numerous other gifts to people and plants. What’s more,...
By Kerstin Reisdorf Blog originally published on the website of the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) It sounds like not only the CIA’s, but also a scientist’s worst nightmare: tons of datasets just “lying...
Is it enough to recommend tree species to farmers? Or even to supply them with the right seedlings and advice on growing them? Across Africa bold campaigns, such as the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100), are underway to...