The goal of this theme is participatory diagnosis of land use problems, and the development and dissemination of appropriate technologies.

The focal areas of this theme are:

1. determining recommendation domains (both biophysical and socio-economic) of promising agroforestry technologies using geographical information systems,
2. increasing the number and diversity of agroforestry options available to smallholder farmers and improving their adaptations and adoption through the participatory research that incorporates feedback of farmers and end-users into research and development,
3. assessing impacts (both ex- and post-ante) and identifying cost-effective and participatory processes for wide-scale dissemination,
4. determining the potential of some of the tree species to become weeds and develop appropriate management practices for them,
5. improving delivery mechanisms – enhancing partnerships and communication with clients and partners.

The goal of this theme is to facilitate the development of agroforestry products, enterprises and markets.

The focal areas of this theme are:

1. Improve market position - developing tools for analyzing the value chain in the market and help smallholder farmers establish a competitive position including improving production and marketing technology, product quality and reliability of supply.
2. Strengthen producer organizations – facilitate the development of strong local producer organizations for tree products that can make capital investments, assemble products in bulk and processing, organize marketing deals establish product quality controls.
3. Promote strategic business partnerships – facilitate the formation of strategic business partnerships that benefit both private industry with reliable supply of products at competitive costs and local producers with high quality planting materials, technical assistance, quality control, investment resources for expansion and marketing and business expertise.
4. Strengthen business services - facilitate the provision of reliable and appropriate business advisory services to smallholder farmers that includes management services, business planning, organizational support, technical assistance for production, conservation and processing; market information, insurance, marketing assistance and financing.
5. Facilitate the development of market information systems for agroforestry products that improves the function of markets and helps producers and buyers to link with each other.

The goal of this theme is to enhance landscape level impact of agroforestry on water and biodiversity conservation - ensuring sustainability.

The focal areas of this theme are:

1. Assess information gaps - determine information needs of natural resource management and rural poverty problems and priorities and channel them into policy and strategic planning processes at the local, national and regional levels.
2. Improve small farmers' access to information - disseminate information that support the reform and implementation of forest, tree and land-tenure policies that enhance livelihood security and ability to benefit from agroforestry for vulnerable rural populations.
3. Develop methods and monitor impact - assess and develop tools for assessing the potential impact of agroforestry on plant and wildlife biodiversity, watershed functions and carbon sequesteration.
4. Strengthen institutions – enhance through the provision of information, training and developing strategies the capacity of national and regional institutions governing the management of water, land and tree resources.

The goal of this theme is to strengthen the capacity of national and regional institutions engaged in agroforestry research, development and education. The focal areas of this theme are:

The focal areas of this theme are:

1. Institutionalize agroforestry and build capacity – establish critical mass of national and regional expertise with capacity to support multi-stakeholder diagnosis of problems and identification of agroforestry solutions.
2. Farmers of the Future– strengthen training of youth in schools, colleges and vocational training centres.
3. Networking - strengthen linkages between institutions involved in agroforestry research, education and development at national and regional levels.