News Overview

In this issue, covering January 2021, we are happy to share our recent and upcoming events, blogs, and publications. Read the newsletter>> Subscribe to receive PIM newsletter and event updates>>

Lam Dong Province in Viet Nam’s Central Highlands makes the transition to a ‘green’ or sustainable economy guided by a green-growth action plan, developed thanks to the support of the Viet Nam team of World Agroforestry (ICRAF). The team used the Land-Use Planning for Multiple Environmental Services (LUMENS) framework, which can model ecological and economic processes, to assess the impacts

Today we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, an opportunity to inspire and promote full and equal inclusion of women and girls in the field.

Feeling poor relative to others can spur families to support women in pursuing work outside the household and to invest more in girls’ schooling, according to our new study. But that does not mean women become more empowered. In 2018, we conducted a survey experiment in Papua New Guinea to see how feeling economically left behind affects gender attitudes. We used

There is often a disconnect between science and decision-making, as the data needed to support planning — particularly local project and monitoring data — are either scattered, inaccessible or not adapted to policy needs. At the Spatial Data Science and Applied Learning Lab (SPACIAL) at World AgroForestry, we have been advancing the concept of decision dashboards to address this challenge.

Youth in the highlands of Ethiopia have been encouraged to take up farming by participation in an Alliance-facilitated pilot scheme focused on small-scale irrigation.

Through extensive research and international collaboration, the Alliance supports work to make coffee production in Vietnam a sustainable source of prosperity for smallholder farmers

Among the many challenges posed by climate change and its impacts on agriculture, improving plant health faces numerous obstacles and yet holds perhaps the greatest potential for strengthening food systems and supporting small farmers in the world’s poorest countries. In view of this fact, the UN declared 2020 the International Year of Plant Health. Today – in the first of four CGIAR webinars on the topic – global… The post Protecting plants, protecting