Agroforestry World
Gilberte Koffi
Gilberte Koffi is the Communications Officer for the World Agroforestry Centre in Côte d’Ivoire. She manages the country’s internal and external communication, and oversees communication activities for ICRAF’s West and Central Africa region. She joined ICRAF in January 2017.
Government, researchers and development agencies are creating a roadmap for restoration in Mali to ensure a better understanding of the challenges, coordination and funding. Mali is one of eight African countries where Regreening Africa is being implemented, targeting 500,000...
With Africa lagging behind in efforts to restore 100 million hectares of degraded land, widespread use of innovative technologies is critical for success. Land degradation leads to declines in soil fertility and the loss of productivity and ecosystem...
A mushroom research and training programme in Myanmar is aiming to lift farmers out of poverty, improve their diets and slow outward migration. Researchers from the Centre for Mountain Futures, a joint lab with World Agroforestry’s East and...
Former ways have been reviewed and new approaches put forward at a major conference on land restoration in Mali. Land-restoration challenges have been presented in the past, great solutions proposed, and targets set at local, regional, national and...
Successful land restoration needs human capacity, innovative technologies and mass participation. The countries of the Sahel Region of West Africa are vulnerable to the impact of large-scale environmental and land degradation, poor soil infertility, climate change, population...
Land is being restored in Africa’s dry Sahel region to ensure food security The semi-arid region known as the Sahel stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea between the Sahara Desert and the Sudanian Savannah. Most...
The East African nation’s farmers are slow to adopt reforestation and regreening practices owing to a range of difficulties. A regreening uptake rate of over 52 percent will be needed to reach Kenya’s 10,000 direct adoption target, according...
The Food Tree and Crop Portfolio helps with the selection of food-tree species along with complementary vegetable, pulse and staple crops.
Government agencies, the private sector, NGOs and universities want a new direction for increasing trees on farms to grow a green economy and strengthen the vulnerable archipelago It will take 206 years to restore to productivity...
Smallholders clear forests on peat swamps for their farms, emitting considerable amounts of greenhouse gases. But how much? Scientists from the World Agroforestry Centre went for a walk to find out. Walking on Indonesian peat that has...
To combat desertification and regreen arid and semi-arid areas in Ethiopia and seven other countries, a consortium of partners faces big challenges A ‘perfect storm’ of challenges is facing the Reversing Land Degradation in Africa by Scaling-up Evergreen...
An ACIAR project is improving food security in eastern and southern Africa by encouraging local farmers to work together. A project in Uganda is empowering smallholder dairy and honey farmers to control their own community development by gaining...
A simple farming technique is proving effective in staving off food shortages in Kenya The female farmers of Makueni County in southeastern Kenya rarely expect to triumph over their parched, unpropitious soils. A pick, a spade and a...
Africa’s population is expected to double from 1.26 billion today to over two and half billion by 2050, little more than 30 years from now. At the same time, land degradation, loss of biodiversity and the effects of...