Insects and diseases fill important roles in forest dynamics, but occasionally they grow to damaging proportions with catastrophic impacts, threatening economic stability and food security. Across Africa, new pathogens and several new fungal species ha…
A new book by prominent tree biologist Roger Leakey boldly states that agroforestry might be the ticket out of some of the most vexing issues facing the planet today. Professor Leakey argues that abject poverty, food insecurity, land degradation and cl…
An innovative agroforestry project is helping smallholder farmers in India to get involved in the global carbon market. Large groups of farmers have been encouraged to adopt activities that improve their yields and incomes and, at the same time, either…
The growth of cities around the world has increased the market demand for fruit, timber and a host of other tree products, a force that is slowly transforming areas around cities into agroforests. In an audio clip recorded at the Rio+20 Earth Summit, D…
Understanding what factors influence household decisions to join community forest associations (CFAs) and participate in forest conservation is essential, as communities living near forests play an increasingly crucial role in forest conservation ̵…
