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.
Project Overview
The refugee response in West Nile region is characterized by rapid population influx, overburdened services, scarcity of resources and lack of alternative energy sources. Natural resource use by the…
Background
In East Africa, over the years, climate change has led to a drastic reduction in the quality and resilience of the land, increased greenhouse gas emissions, and food and nutrition insecurity for the growing…
Overview
In Malawi, smallholders face many challenges related to climate change, resulting in low productivity, low income levels, food and nutrition insecurity. Hence, development of climate-resilient and productive…
Project Background
Drylands cover 40 % of the global land area, host 2 billion people, and support approximately 50% of the world’s livestock population. In the drylands of East Africa, pastoral and agropastoral…
Overview
Efforts to reverse land landscape restoration in the Eastern Province have been constrained by several problems including dependence on wood as major source of energy, low tree survival rate due to termites,…
Overview
The potential of fruit trees to optimize the combined benefits of livelihoods, food security, nutrition and climate mitigation and adaptation is promising but not yet fully understood nor applied in practice. …
Food tree and crop portfolios for nutrition and resilience in Zambia
Diets in rural Zambia are low in micronutrients essential for growth and well-being. But “food trees” can provide some of these much-needed…