Changing lives and landscapes
Experts from varying fields of agricultural research came together in Nairobi, Kenya on 1 September 2011 to discuss the underlying causes and potential solutions to the devastating famine in the Horn of Africa. A useful web page has been created to pull together information on this CGIAR Consortium event Famine in the Horn of Africa: [...]
Saddened by the passing of Professor Wangari Maathai, who supported and collaborated with us on many initiatives, the staff of the World Agroforestry Centre have set up this page to pay tribute to a truly remarkable and inspiring person.
Bioversity International has released a series of excellent booklets on priority African tree species such as the Baobab and the Shea Butter tree, complementing the Agroforestree database; both aim to provide information on important species that are native to sub-Saharan Africa.
[Reproduced from Reuters alertnet] A couple of decades ago, when my colleagues began urging African farmers to plant trees in the middle of their maize fields, many agricultural development specialists thought we were a bit deranged. People can’t eat trees. So what good would planting one do for the food security of rural families and [...]
With the continuing horrific situation in the Horn of Africa, media, NGOs and other have been coming to us saying things like “surely there’s a huge role for agroforestry there to transform these landscapes and ensure the viability of farming in dryland areas”. It seems agroforestry is increasingly being viewed as a solution to agricultural [...]
