The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR and World Agroforestry (ICRAF) joined forces in 2019, leveraging a combined 65 years’ experience in research on the role of forests and trees in solving critical global challenges.
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2020
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Workshop Report
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Workshop Achievements
- Developed a shared understanding of land degradation and exemplar landscapes
- Shared case studies outlining practices and approaches to address land degradation and reverse desertification
- Explored data, both biophysical and socioeconomic, on the candidate landscape
- Completed a participatory field exercise under seven thematic areas to understand the candidate landscape in Anantapuramu district
- Supported the concept of a climate resilient exemplar landscape and selected an area covering three villages
- Identified landscape management options that may be appropriate and transformative for livelihoods
- Developed an outline operational plan for developing an ‘engagement landscape’ in Anantapuramu district
- Secured agreement in principle to scale up the use of such engagement landscapes across Andhra Pradesh in order to promote innovation and adoption of alternative, climate resilient farming and landscape practices that are carbon positive
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