“Are you a driver or a passenger in deforestation?” asked Tony Simons, Director General of the World Agroforestry Centre, as he opened a discussion forum that was part of Forest Day 6, held on 2 December 2012 in Doha, Qatar in conjunction with the …
Bats are indicators of the health of an ecosystem. Different bats play different roles: some pollinate flowers; others eat fruits and disperse seeds, helping restore degraded landscapes; still others eat mosquitoes and insect pests. A new book by Panda…
In Africa agricultural land covers more than double the area covered by forests, and that ratio is rising. This makes trees on agricultural land a promising tool for addressing climate change mitigation, through their ability to store carbon. But what …
Dr. Ermias Betemariam, a land health scientist with the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), describes the various constraints being faced by Ivorian smallholder cocoa farmers, and how these are being tackled within the Vision for Change: Sustainable Coc…
We know that agroforestry can provide a range of benefits for subsistence farmers. But just how does agroforestry reduce farmers’ vulnerability to climate change? New research shows at least five ways.
