Agroforestry World
The challenge of balancing quantity and quality in forest landscape restoration By Aida Bargués Tobella ‘Forest Landscape Restoration’ is on everyone’s lips. Governments all over the world have committed to restore hundreds of millions of...
As climate negotiators wrangled in Paris towards the historic agreement this December, scientists and policy makers elsewhere in the city were equally fixated on landscapes and how to restore them. Landscape restoration locks up carbon in the soil...
The world’s leaders have been set the challenge of restoring more than 350 million hectares by 2030. Researchers see agroforestry as the key to making it happen. ‘Around 20–25% of global land is degraded, affecting 1.5 billion...
A Research for Development Platform can be a powerful mechanism to bring different people together to solve problems and produce more inclusive, demand-driven research. But experience in Thailand and Viet Nam reveals many challenges. There are three...
Participatory, on-farm research has long been acknowledged as an approach with great potential for increasing the adoption of research results for development purposes. However, sometimes there can be unexpected obstacles, including the farmers themselves. In participatory, on-farm...