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.
Purpose
To focus on how WLE research across CGIAR centers can better help landscapes to become sustainable and resilient while addressing the interlinked global challenges, including:
- Ending poverty
- Reversing land degradation
- Achieving water, food and nutritional security
- Halting biodiversity loss
Project Objectives
- Collect and integrate shared experience across CGIAR centers - Synthesize the challenges and enabling conditions for successfully implementing and delivering a multifunctional landscape approach.
- Capacity building and creating a safe space for discussion and reflection - Disseminate and built capacity across CGIAR researchers for implementing, monitoring and funding landscape approaches through multiple mechanisms including webinars, podcasts and blogs.
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