Agroforestry News
| Trees for Food Security: New project launch | August 3, 2012 |
Sustainable farm productivity and enhanced livelihoods through Evergreen Agriculture in eastern Africa |
| Intercropping improves Ugandan banana and coffee yields | July 18, 2012 |
Written by Brendan Jackson and Chris Mesiku “In Uganda, coffee and banana go better together” writes Caity Peterson in the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) blog. |
| From F’s to A’s: People power could steer Rio+20 success | July 16, 2012 |
The Rio+20 conference received a record one billion tweets from around 50 million people worldwide. |
| Trees and the city: How urbanization is driving agroforestry | July 16, 2012 |
The growth of cities around the world has increased the market demand for fruit, timber and a host of other tree products, a force that is slowly transforming areas around cities into agroforests.< |
| Does PES actually protect the environment? | July 13, 2012 |
Written by Brendan Jackson and Chris Mesiku |
| Can trees stop climate change in Africa? | July 10, 2012 |
As an illustration of the multitude of ecosystem services trees can offer, "moisture from the canopy of East African forests provide 35 percent of the rain in West Africa," writes Cathy Watson in the Star newspaper. She was covering the IUFRO-FORNESSA Congress held at the World Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi. |
| Disputes over degrees of tribal influence on the Amazon | July 10, 2012 |
Experts have disputed a study arguing that pre- Columbian people had little impact on the western central Amazon. |
| East Africa Dairy Development project receives $8 Million grant | July 9, 2012 |
The World Agroforestry Centre supported East Africa Dairy Development (EADD) project which is implemented by Heifer International, recently received a grant of eight and half million dollars from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. |
| Converting the Evergreen Agriculture concept to reality | July 3, 2012 |
The Times of India report |
| PRESA contributes to the Green Economy | July 2, 2012 |
The World Agroforestry Centre representatives were given a chance to show the Centre’s Pro-poor Rewards for Environmental Service in Africa (PRESA) initiative as part of RIO+20 negotiations focused on how to shift to a sustainable, green economy. |
