|
1) Trees &
Markets
Source: Trees
& Markets website
Our Vision: The widespread cultivation of trees supplying
equitable and thriving tree product markets
Trees & Markets is improving livelihoods through better trees and
tree products within agroforestry systems.
In collaboration with other themes in ICRAF and with a large set of
partners, we are working to assure that sustainability, biodiversity
conservation, and improved land management are integrated into tree
domestication, and market and farmer enterprise strategies.
Our three focal areas: The focal area on Agroforestree
Germplasm (TM1) is supported globally by the Germplasm Resources Unit (GRU). The other two
are Tree
Domestication (TM2) and Marketing of
Agroforestry Tree Products (TM3.
2)
Environmental Services
Source: Environmental
Services website
Environmental Services provide a critical means of balancing concerns for
environment and welfare of the world’s poorest
populations.
ICRAF’s activities on environmental services concentrate on the potential
role of agroforestry systems and landscape mosaics to generate environmental
services and the ways that institutions and incentive systems shape the streams
of benefits and costs from alternative land uses.
Our four focal areas:
Watershed protection; Biodiversity conservation; Climate change
adaptation and mitigation; and, the cross-cutting area of environmental governance.
3) Land and
People
Source:
Land and People website and Land and People
We
are seeking to understand the basis for sound land management and quantifying
the long-term consequences of management practices on small-scale agriculture in
order to devise locally relevant land management options.
Our four focal areas: Integrated soil fertility management for
improving rural livelihoods; Soil and water conservation for maintaining
productive agricultural landscapes; Vegetation management for increased system
productivity and reduced human vulnerability; and, Land management interventions
for reaching the poorest land users.
4) Strengthening
Institutions
Source:
Strengthening Institutions website
We
strengthen the capacity of institutions - local, national and regional - to
participate effectively in generating and applying innovations in agroforestry,
INRM, and environments for improved livelihoods.
Addressing capacity at the institutional level will strengthen the
participation of our partners in research and development within all themes. By
increasing the total number of individuals and institutions competent to do
research, teaching and dissemination of knowledge in agroforestry, we are
diversifying the sources of knowledge reaching farmers, and thereby increasing
the potential for adoption and impact on livelihoods and landscapes.
Our four focal areas: Research systems and institutions;
Development systems and institutions; Educational systems and institutions;
Inter-institutional collaboration and knowledge management
|
