Agroforestry World
Kate Langford
Kate Langford is a consultant writer with close to 20 years’ experience in communicating natural resource, environmental and land management issues for various government and non-government organizations. She previously worked as Communications Specialist for the World Agroforestry Centre in Kenya and has worked in Indonesia, Laos, Vietnam and Australia. She holds a Bachelor of Science and a Graduate Diploma in Scientific Communication.
Kinnarahalli, a village in the Hassan district of Karnataka State, India has been declared ‘smokeless’ thanks to the World Agroforestry Centre’s Biofuel Programme. Of the village’s 79 households, 77 are now equipped with biogas facilities which make use...
Areas of the archipelagic nation are under-serviced by public energy suppliers. Tree-based bioenergy offers the chance to not only provide power but also a source of livelihoods to these remote communities that is also environmentally friendly. The...
The need for clearer policies, more trees and other plants for biomass and fuel, and use of organic waste from agriculture were some of the topics discussed at an international clean-energy forum for Indonesia that quickened the agenda...
Further exploration of sustainable tree-based bioenergy could help improve the lives and livelihoods of communities around the world. Most of the energy used in the world comes from fossil fuels, which are not sustainable as sources will...
To support the decision whether and how to engage in alternative charcoal production, the Biomass Technology Group (BTG) on behalf of NL Agency has developed the Alternative Charcoal Tool (ACT). If you want to know how to produce...
Southeast Asia, which is a world centre of palm biodiversity, can sustainably intensify agriculture through maximizing the full potential of sugar palms as sources of livestock feed and biofuel, according to Craig Jamieson during the First International Agroforestry...
It has been promoted in Kenya as a biofuel crop that can grow well almost anywhere, but newly published research into yields from the jatropha tree across the country shows 79 per cent of farmers obtained just 0.1kg...
It has been promoted in Kenya as a biofuel crop that can grow well almost anywhere, but newly published research into yields from the jatropha tree across the country shows 79 per cent of farmers obtained just 0.1kg...
By Ni’matul Khasanah, Meine van Noordwijk, Andree Ekadinata, Sonya Dewi, Subekti Rahayu, Harti Ningsih, Anang Setiawan, Elisa Dwiyanti and Rahayu Octaviani. The European Union plans to limit the conversion of land globally for biofuel production. Such conversions...