Agroforestry World
Enggar Paramita
Enggar Paramita is an independent communication consultant. She previously worked with the World Agroforestry Centre as Communication Officer for the Agroforestry and Forestry in Sulawesi project.
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...
With the world already feeling the impact of climate change, feeding a future population of 9 billion while also keeping trees in landscapes to soak up carbon and provide many other benefits is a huge challenge best met...
Policy makers, governments and international organizations increasingly recognize the urgent need for the forestry sector to improve its communication capacity and activity across countries and regions. More than 35 communication workers, resource mobilizers, natural-resources managers and foresters...
People-centred forestry is at the heart of ensuring future generations inherit a sustainable Earth. Agroforestry can be its local expression. Ms Yuliatin, a community forestry leader from Jember in Indonesia, brought a grass-roots perspective to the opening...
The Minister of Environment and Forestry explains some of what the new Government is doing to protect forests and the communities that interact with them ‘The traditional view is that forests are unproductive and their value...
Is a forest simply a collection of trees? Can we really apply the same term that we use for the treasure-houses of biodiversity, replete with their own complex ecosystems that harbour a myriad of animals, plants and fungi...
“One of the world’s largest biodiversity hotspots is to be found in the Hengduan Mountains located in southwest China. More recently, the region has been suffering the devastating effects of climate change, with increased episodes of drought registered...
On 7 December, the Peruvian Environment Ministry (MINAM), represented by H.E. Minister Manuel Pulgar-Vida, and the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), represented by its Director-General, Dr. Anthony Simons signed a memorandum of understanding for inter-institutional cooperation. The signature of...
With conflict over land rights in around 18,000 villages in Indonesia, tenure is a major barrier to social, environmental and economic welfare. The Ministry of Forestry has taken a major step towards reducing conflict by adopting Rapid Land...
From the 1989 Noordwijk Declaration to the latest version of reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation, much has changed (and much hasn’t) in how policy makers see the relationship between forests and climate change, say Joyeeta Gupta, Robin...
By Meine van Noordwijk The Centre’s chief science advisor argues that researchers need to address more complex issues of policy and evidence if they want to have a real impact. Interest in evidence-based policy alternates with periods where policy-based evidence dominates. However,...