Agroforestry World
The third Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD3) opened on with a clarion call to translate research results into usable innovations. This way, research will better serve both African countries’ sustainable development aspirations and the global...
Sustainability and improved incomes for upland farmers are among the aims of a project to revitalize abaca production in the Philippines. An article in the Manila Times outlines how Germany’s international development cooperation arm Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale...
Originally published on the website of the CGIAR Research Programme on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry To mark International Day of Forests 2016, Peter Holmgren, Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and Tony Simons, Director...
Most of us would agree that human wellbeing depends to a large extent on healthy ecosystems and the services they provide. For example, fertile soil enables us to grow food crops, and nutrient cycling in watersheds is needed...
A switch from harvesting timber to harvesting fruits is helping to conserve the largest and most diverse protected area in the Philippines. An article in the Business Mirror reports on the struggle to protect the Northern Sierra Madre...
A two-day stakeholders’ consultation on CGIAR site integration in Kenya recognized the strides achieved so far and called for greater collaboration among CGIAR centres and stakeholders in the country. The consultation, held on 10-11 March 2016 at the...