| Major Highlights of the year at the World Agroforestry Centre |
Oct – Dec 2003
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- World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) celebrates 25 years with an international conference on the future of agroforestry
- ICRAF projects win two Innovation Marketplace awards at the CGIAR Annual General Meeting in Nairobi
- The Canadian Minister for International Cooperation visits ICRAF
- ICRAF launches the book A Stitch in
Time – Improving Agriculture and Natural Resources Education in Africa
- ICRAF in Nairobi organises and hosts a regional workshop on agroforestry and HIV/AIDS
- ICRAF in Nairobi organises and hosts a regional workshop on watershed management
- ICRAF wins the Outstanding Agroforestry Project award at The Philippines 1st National Agroforestry Congress.
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| Jan – Mar 2004 |
- The Regional Land Management Unit
(RELMA) is fully integrated into ICRAF
with ongoing funding by Sida (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency)
- ICRAF organises a seminar on food security in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- ICRAF Zero-grazing dairy project in Rwanda wins World Bank award
- ICRAF and Kenyan Ministry of Water Resources Management launch treeplanting campaign
- ICRAF Eastern and Central Africa Regional Programme opens new country office in Ethiopia
- Media and Ambassadors Days held at ICRAF headquarters with accompanying field visits.
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| Apr – Jun 2004 |
- Millennium Ecosystems Assessment (MA) Board visits ICRAF
- ICRAF Sahel Regional Programme hosts Shea butter tree producers workshop
- First ICRAF Board meeting in India and launch of ICRAF South Asia Regional Programme
- Dr D.N. Tewari of the Indian Planning
Commission and Dr Linxui Zhang of the
Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy are appointed new members of the ICRAF Board of Trustees
- ICRAF’s bamboo work in Kenya highlighted in CNN World Report
- ICRAF and Anglo-Dutch Unilever initiate a partnership for Allanblackia domestication
- ICRAF scientists present latest
agroforestry research findings at the
1st World Congress of Agroforestry in Florida and contribute to the Orlando Declaration on Agroforestry
- Rockefeller Foundation President, Dr Gordon Conway visits ICRAF.
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| Jul – Sep 2004 |
- CRAF and hosted institutions staff donate Ksh. 288,000 (US$3600) to Kenya Famine Relief Fund
- President of Tigray (Ethiopia) visits ICRAF
- New ICRAF Southern Africa Regional Programme opens new office in Lillongwe, Malawi
- ICRAF organises and hosts regional workshop on agroforestry in the drylands of eastern Africa.
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