Introduction
We are strengthening the
potential of smallholder agroforestry systems to generate
global environmental benefits, particularly in watershed
protection, biodiversity conservation and climate change
mitigation and adaptation.
This involves balancing the needs for reducing poverty while
enhancing food security and protecting the environment.
This year we report on restoring the watershed of the Lake
Victoria basin, assessing biodiversity in the Sahel and
developing new approaches to help policy makers balance
the complex conservation and development issues facing tropical
forests.
The four focal areas in this theme are:
- Pro-poor strategies to enhance watershed functions.
This work is refining tree management principles relating
to species and their configuration in the landscape for
different spatial scales and contexts, developing models
to predict these effects, identify best management practices,
and assess mechanisms for harmonizing individual rationality
with social responsibility.
- Use and conservation of biological diversity
in working landscapes. This initiative aims to
advance our understanding of and capacity to manage biodiversity
in human-dominated landscape mosaics in the tropics for
the benefit of the rural poor.
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation for
rural development. This research is clarifying
the processes of ‘adaptation’ to climate change, and to
provide incentives for smallholder farmers to adopt farming
methods that contribute to climate change mitigation.
- Policies to harmonize environmental stewardship
and rural development. This focus is providing
science-based evidence on the trade-offs and complementarities
between land use for environmental services and for livelihoods
of small farmers.
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