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Day 2 Symposium 4: Agroforestry Systems in Africa
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Agroforestry Centre’s research and outreach activities in southern and eastern Africa. Among the key findings presented are:
- Fodder shrubs and fertilizer trees have proven potential for increasing yields and income, and providing many other
- social benefits. They have been adopted widely by poor farmers, both men and women in southern and eastern Africa.
- Fertilizer trees add substantial nutrients from tree biomass, reducing the requirement for mineral N fertilizer by 75%,translating to substantial savings on mineral fertilizer imports.
- Increases in yields due to fertilizer trees are equivalent to 54-114 additional person days of maize consumption, capable of reducing the hunger period by 2 to 3 months per household.
- Hundreds of thousands of smallholder farmers have been testing and adopting fertilizer trees.
- Scaling up these technologies is not duplication or replication, but adaptation and creating the conditions that make these technologies work in new areas.
It was recognized that more needs to be done in: germplasm supply and policy support; sensitizing farmers on multiple benefits; studying different types of farmer adoption and gender roles in agriculture.
Download the full report for Symposium 4 Agroforestry Systems in Africa
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