Agroforestry World
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.
Dennis Garrity, United Nations Drylands Ambassador, called for increased attention on restoring tropical drylands during a visit to the island of Sumba in eastern Indonesia. ‘Sumba is an extreme case with many challenges,’ said Garrity, speaking...
A new study argues that there are five key success factors that need to be considered during the design of collaborative research-for-development projects and a further 10 key success factors that should be considered during project implementation, in...
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...
On March 8 the world celebrates International Women’s Day. In the Philippines, Cathy Watson interviewed one of ICRAF’s female scientists, Caroline Piñon also called Yuyen. Yuyen: I joined ICRAF after my Bachelor of Arts in Development Studies in...
Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have pledged to put millions of hectares under restoration by 2030.
The Group brought together experts from ASEAN and beyond to provide critical input to key regional guiding documents The Mekong Expert Group on Agroforestry for Food and Nutrition Security, Sustainable Agriculture and Land Restoration was formed in early...
Shifting from conventional farms to agroforestry farms brings various benefits to communities as they face the threat of a changing climate. Agroforestry, the practice of planting trees and crops in the same area, may serve as a sustainable...
The Mountain Futures Innovation Platform in Yunnan, China is a new way to better understand upland landscapes for sustainable development. The Mountain Futures Innovation Platform was inaugurated on 11 January 2019 by World Agroforestry and the...
‘When the mountain turns pink, with the clouds rising along its top, and the goats eat more, it will rain.’ By Tran Ha My, Elisabeth Simelton, Le Thi Tam For thousands of years, the farmers...
The endorsement of the Guidelines by the region’s ministers of agriculture and forestry paves the way for implementation to restore degraded landscapes, improve food security and livelihoods, enhance farmers’ resilience and meet nationally determined contributions to...
Researchers have created a new tool to measure biological diversity in farm land, which will prove useful for the purposes of the Convention on Biological Diversity. The United Nations Biodiversity Conference held 17–29 November 2018 in...
Zero-budget natural farming (ZBNF) is reported to be followed by 8% of farmers in Andhra Pradesh, India, making it probably the world’s most successful natural farming approach. “Adoption rates elsewhere of nature-friendly agriculture rarely exceed 1%,” says...
The participation of public and private entities is a crucial element in developing a monitoring and evaluation framework that includes the issues of all relevant sectors at national and sub-national levels. The Enhanced National Greening Program was...
Non-governmental organizations reviewed the proposed Philippine program of the Green Climate Fund and shared their climate priorities. In the past few months, the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Philippines in partnership with the Climate Change Commission and...