Changing lives and landscapes
Co-author: Judith Olang-Intern at Research Methods Group. As a leading research institution, the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) produces hundreds of publications annually. Each publication synthesizes data from a number of sources mostly from other publications from the Centre. Till now, many researchers have had to manually hunt for important data or use a number of [...]
I first visited the Talensi-Nabdam district in Ghana in July 2009. I was there to run a workshop with community leaders on Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR), the reforestation method that I had stumbled upon while living in Niger back in 1983.
The burden on scientists working in development to show impact can lead to short cuts and affect the likely uptake of the knowledge we generate.
