Agroforestry World

Agroforestry World

Rob Finlayson

Robert Finlayson is the Southeast Asia program's regional communications specialist. As well as writing stories for the Centre's website, he devises and supervises strategies for projects and the countries in the Southeast Asia region, including scripting and producing videos, supervising editors and translators and also assisting with resource mobilization.

Agriculture/Agroforestry / Bhutan / Capacity Building / Climate / CRP6-Forests, Trees and Agroforestry / Disaster risk reduction / Extension Activities / Knowledge Sharing / Nepal / Participation / SD1-Systems Science / SD3-Tree diversity, domestication and delivery / SD4-Land health decisions / SD5-Environmental Services / SD6-Climate Change / SDG01-Poverty eradication, building shared prosperity and promoting equality / SDG02 - Sustainable agriculture, food security and nutrition / SDG04-Education and life-long learning / SDG08-Economic growth and employment / SDG10-Promote equality among nations / SDG11-Sustainable cities and human settlements / SDG12-Sustainable Consumption and Production / SDG13-Climate change / SDG15 -Ecosystems and biodiversity / SDG16-Peaceful and inclusive societies, rule of law and capable institutions / Viet Nam

by · 11 Apr, 2018

Bhutan and Nepal learn more about agroforestry in Vietnam

Government officers from the two mountainous countries visited highly successful agroforestry sites in Northwest Vietnam that are restoring degraded sloping land and improving farmers’ incomes.

Adaptation / Bhutan / Capacity Building / CRP6.3-Landscape management for environmental services, biodiversity conservation and livelihoods / Emissions / Greenhouse Gases (Ghg) / Indonesia / Mitigation / Natural Resource Management / Partnerships / Policies / resilience

by · 17 Dec, 2015

Bhutan learns how to improve payments for ecosystem services

Staff of the Bhutan Government have been trained by the World Agroforestry Centre in methods for improving their ecosystem services’ schemes.   Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) are incentive-based schemes that bridge conservation initiatives and community livelihoods. The...