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 in...
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...
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...
By Chetan Kumar, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Uganda and other developing nations explain the challenges of meeting global targets for biodiversity, at the Fourteenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the...
Researchers in Indonesia have produced an illustrated book to help farmers better understand research results The illustrated story book, Menanam pohon di bukit batu (Planting trees on a stony hill), was produced to help spread knowledge of...
Representatives from government and non-governmental organizations are working together to ensure that growing more trees on agricultural land will increase protection of biodiversity as well as farmers’ livelihoods In the province of West Kalimantan in Indonesia, an...
Researchers are exploring existing systems that mix trees with rice, oil palm and other species on both mineral and peat soils so as to understand how farmers can increase biodiversity Growing more trees on agricultural land can...
Sumba in eastern Indonesia has been almost totally deforested, has only patches of thin soil on limestone savannahs and a wet season that has contracted to three months a year. Farmers have been struggling to survive yet nonetheless...
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...
The Indonesian bamboo industry is underdeveloped and missing opportunities. More support is needed.
Two new studies reveal the importance of silviculture for increasing farmers’ incomes in Java and East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. Planting timber in agricultural systems is a common practice in Indonesia. Farmers often cultivate timber together with other crops...
Farmers on Sumba Island struggle through a nine-month dry season on degraded land. But they are committed to learning how to restore their island to its once verdant and productive state. Sumba Island in East Nusa Tenggara...
Candlenut in West and East Nusa Tenggara provinces in Indonesia can potentially provide additional income for farmers but post-harvest handling is necessary. If you visit the Indonesian provinces of West or East Nusa Tenggara (collectively called Nusa...
Farmers in Java and Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia lack information on teak cultivation and non-timber forest products, leaving them with inadequate skills to improve their livelihoods. Aside from irrigated rice, horticulture and plantation crops, both timber and non-timber forest...