Agroforestry World
Size of landholding, flooding, and a shortage of knowledge, seedlings and markets are holding back farmers in Viet Nam from planting trees amongst their other crops. Researchers have found ways of overcoming these obstacles. By Rachmat Mulia...
Sixty years ago, the land that now makes up Indonesia’s Gunung Walat University Forest was almost completely bare. Like so many other parts of Indonesia, which has recorded some of the world’s fastest rates of deforestation, a state-owned...
Further exploration of sustainable tree-based bioenergy could help improve the lives and livelihoods of communities around the world. Most of the energy used in the world comes from fossil fuels, which are not sustainable as sources will...
A series of field schools in Sulawesi, Indonesia are helping share advanced knowledge about agroforestry throughout the island By Enggar Paramita After being implemented for two years in South and Southeast Sulawesi provinces in Indonesia, a...
Experience from Uganda shows that when villages and districts create regulations to manage forests and restoration, benefits flow. Through collective awareness of land-management challenges at the grassroots level, governments and others are effectively coerced to make policy...
There is no doubt that energy is embedded in food production, food distribution and food preparation. Yet practitioners in the two sectors tend to work separately without taking into consideration the interdependences of the two development challenges. What...
Evidence from around the globe is continuing to confirm that integrating trees directly into farming systems builds greater resilience into the landscape
Demonstrating that forests are more than then the sum of their trees, indigenous forest-dwellers showcased high-end fashion, food and orchestral prowess to the delight and edification of World Forestry Congress delegates. A story told in pictures… ...
While the new Government of Indonesia is keen to promote community-based forest management, World Agroforestry Centre researchers working in villages granted the licenses have found confusion and frustration over purpose, beneficiaries and support The Government of Indonesia...
Tropical forest countries at the World Forestry Congress call for greater cooperation to share experience between farmers, advisors and governments ‘We are all talking about how to transfer knowledge from scientists and government to farmers’, summarised Dr...
Tree products can provide significant income for many households when annual crops or livestock aren’t profitable, according to research in Bac Kan Province in Northeastern Viet Nam. By Rachmat Mulia and Hoan Trong Do Compared to...
Using photographs, farmers in central Viet Nam explain the challenges they have faced from extreme weather Natural disasters brought about by extreme weather have caused numerous losses in the central coastal region’s steep terrain transected by short...
Agroforestry, the cultivation of trees on farmland in different combinations with crops and livestock, can play a strategic role in restoring protected areas in Brazil. This was one of the key conclusions to come out of a recent...
Children are our hope for the future. In Viet Nam, some are learning about what makes their village climate-smart To engage the younger generation of future farmers, the World Agroforestry Centre Viet Nam’s ‘climate-smart village’ team organized...