The multiple crises facing the world, including deforestation and biodiversity loss, climate change, broken food systems, unsustainable value and supply chains, and extreme inequalities, have put agroforestry on the top of most consensus lists of how to successfully combat multiple in cost-effectively and in an integrated way. Though an old practice, agroforestry faces a future and urgent demand for expansion to counter the negative impacts of mal-adapted land management, especially through poor agricultural practices. This session will explore the potential of agroforestry technologies in enhancing small-holder farmers' adaptation and promoting ecological and livelihood resilience, in addition to meeting national mitigation goals on carbon remaoval as outlined in the country specific NDC documents. It brings together experts from Asia and Africa to share their experiences and also allows the audience to engage with the experts through questions and answers.

Agenda

Opening remarks and introducing presenters

Moderator

Setting the scene

Speaker

Éliane Ubalijoro

Chief Executive Officer, CIFOR-ICRAF

Planning tree-based restoration programmes at scale: What to Plant, where and why?

Speaker

Abi Tamim Vanak

Director of the Centre for Policy Design, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)

Agroforestry and performance-based financing– case of Cocoa in the frontiers of community forests in Cameroon

Speaker

Divine Foundjem-Tita

Marketing specialist, CIFOR-ICRAF

Policy barriers and enablers to enhance agroforestry in smallholder farmers through TOFI expansion in India

Speaker

Anuja Malhotra

Policy Manager, Centre for Policy Design at Ashoka Trust for Research for Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)

Gambia's experience on large-scale ecosystems-based adaptation

Speaker

Malanding S. Jaiteh

Project Manager, The Large-Scale Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) Project, The Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Natural Resources, The Gambia

Agroforestry as ultimate solution– why collective scaling is key for climate action?

Speaker

Chandrashekhar Biradar

Country Director-India and Chief of Party (CoP) for Trees Outside Forests in India (TOFI), CIFOR-ICRAF

Q&A (discussions)

Moderator

Closing remarks

Moderator