Agroforestry World
Tony Simons
Tony Simons is the Director General of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF). He has worked 27 years on issues at the tropical agriculture/forestry interface, within the private sector (Shell Forestry); academia (University of Oxford); official development assistance (ODA/DFID); and research (CGIAR). He holds degrees from Massey University and Cambridge University, and an Honorary Professorship in Tropical Forestry at the University of Copenhagen, and has published over 100 research papers. Tony is passionate about the transformative change that the private sector can bring to development.
The institutional evolution of World Agroforestry for the two thousand and tens decade is a combined outcome of sound planning and serendipity.
The private and public sectors got together in Jakarta this week to launch the commercially innovative Tropical Landscapes Finance Facility (TLFF). This enterprising initiative, exceeding USD 1.1 billion of investments, will provide long-term finance (10-15 years) to projects...
Agroforestry is a “back to the future” concept, advocating a return to the origins of farming —trees and fields— rather than the modern concept of huge monocultures, says Tony Simons. Tony Simons, Director General of ICRAF spoke to...
Here is the Statement from International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) to the UNFCCC COP21 High Level Session, Paris, December 2015 Delivered on Tuesday, 8 December 2015, by ICRAF Director General Prof Anthony Simons We are pleased...
Never before in the history of the planet have 150 heads of state sat in a single conference hall on a single day. Never before in the previous 20 conferences of parties to the United Nations Framework Convention...
We live in a scary world. Scary because we have lost more forest than we have remaining, scary because we have more degraded land than arable land, and scary that energy scarcity affects one third of the world’s...
Ever since 1970, we have been overusing the capacity of the planet: we have exhausted the annual provisioning capacity of our Earth. We need a new way of looking at things to ensure a habitable planet into the future.
An estimated 500 million smallholder farmers in the developing world produce the majority of food for the earth’s public citizens. Yet these farmers are not in the public sector; rather, they are part of the private sector—like private...
Typos aside, this is the theme of the 22nd Committee on Forestry (COFO) 2014 currently being held at FAO, 23-27June 2014. Officially entitled “Forests and People: Wood and Beyond,” COFO 22 is aimed at reviewing the state of...
The equinox is when the Earth’s equator is tilted to exactly face the sun, and day and night have equal length. It is a special feature of our planet and it happens twice a year on 21st day...
Every year the world celebrates International Women’s Day (IWD) on March 8th. This Day is not just an extension of Mother’s day or Valentine’s Day where men can express love for women, but a serious event to draw...
Once every five years we celebrate the role of tree-based systems in human prosperity with an international congress. The World Congress on Agroforestry 2014 in Delhi, India, opened the thematic sessions today with a programme on “The Business...
Once every five years we celebrate the role of tree-based systems in human prosperity with an international congress. The World Congress on Agroforestry 2014 in Delhi, India, kicked off the second day of thematic sessions today with a...