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Study: agroecological approaches effective against invasive Fall Armyworm

Ethiopia: Engaging stakeholders on watersheds and agroforestry from the ground up

Restoring soil and land health in Andhra Pradesh with a landscape approach

Transforming tree nurseries into gender-inclusive enterprises in Central and Eastern Kenya

Youth in green jobs set course for a better future in Ethiopia

Study affirms the wisdom of using agroecological approaches to manage fall armyworm

Work after war: resourcing tree seed center employees in Tigray, Ethiopia

Tailoring Ethiopia’s Dryland Restoration Strategy to regional contexts

Framework elevates monitoring for nature-based solutions + restoration in Makueni, Kenya

PATSPO II restarts working with Mekelle Regional Tree Seed Centre

Agroforestry: A pathway to harnessing nature-based solutions for ecosystems and livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bamboo value chain set to boost livelihoods in Nyimba, Zambia

In Zambia, agroforestry, forestry and wildlife-based value chains set to serve people, biodiversity, and climate

Restoring Kenya’s rangeland landscapes for ecosystem-based adaptation

“Gender roles get into our house together with us.”

Growing forgotten food crops for healthy African diets in 2070

Transforming smallholder farms through soil health data

Ecosystem services valuation: the question of precision

From poaching to seed collecting: the promise of indigenous fruit and food trees in Zambia

Working with mountain communities towards a brighter future for all

Living dirt: why microorganisms matter for healthy soil

Members of the Ethiopian Parliament acknowledge CIFOR-ICRAF’s active role

New report yields land restoration insights across eight countries in Sub-Saharan Africa

Agroforestry and fruit trees to accelerate delivery of good nutrition in the Para State Engagement Landscape

Sorting out seed-selling issues in Ethiopia

Government regulation can improve environmental integrity of carbon credits: lessons from Peru

Opportunities to include soil health to Kenya’s Nationally Determined Contribution to the Paris Agreement

Peruvian smallholders learn agroforestry practices in Brazil

The forgotten half?

Assessing soil health in Ghana to scale climate-smart agriculture

Integrating soil organic carbon into Nationally Determined Contributions across Africa

Empowering farmers on climate-smart farming practices to boost avocado productivity and profitability in Central Kenya

Ethiopian tree-planting initiatives learn more on what PATSPO has to offer

Diverse ‘agricultures’ need tailored policies

From inspiration to action

In Kenyan refugee settlement landscapes, recovering and reusing resources can be life-changing

Training for better tree seed marketing in Ethiopia

COP27: Climate adaptation challenges should be treated as investment opportunities

Are trees on farms a biodiversity blind spot?

What’s stopping people growing more trees in Kenya’s drylands?

Bringing biodiversity’s benefits home

Governments urged to support restoration of soil ecosystems

CoP 27: The silent cry for stewardship of the Earth

Reversing tree diversity decline: why we need all the species we’ve got

Agroforestry in the spotlight at Global Bamboo and Rattan Congress

What’s stopping some Ivorian cocoa farmers adopting agroforestry?

“The journey has started”: In Kenya’s Kitui County, residents ready to restore landscapes

Agroforestry needs visibility in national budgets to track climate progress

Land, soil, and crop information services: an innovative tool to support climate-smart agriculture in East Africa

Rebuilding tree cover in Côte d’Ivoire’s deforested cocoa landscapes

Getting the right mix: Agroforestry as an effective strategy to boost Davao de Oro’s cacao industry

New book: Diversity of agroforestry practices in Viet Nam

In Latin America, agroforestry and agroecology can help achieve common goals

“We can’t give the same agroforestry model to all producers because it won’t work”

Ethiopia: training on tree seed lab operations and seed documentation proves fruitful

Book chapter: industrializing Africa through tree crop commodities

Building resilient socio-ecological cashew landscapes in Côte d’Ivoire

Better together: institutionalizing a multi-stakeholder partnership for Davao de Oro’s cacao industry

Forest knowledge helps Ethiopians source better seeds

Building sustainability in refugee-hosting landscapes

It’s a match: Maximizing Davao de Oro’s potential for growing cacao

Beyond the Green Legacy Initiative in Ethiopia

“It has changed my life, my home”

Blueprint for resilience: The Gambia launches national agroforestry strategy

How women shellfishers can be empowered to conserve coastal biodiversity

What’s driving deforestation and land use change in the Peruvian Amazon?

What Vietnam’s coffee success can teach Africa

Building the evidence base in the Andhra Pradesh Engagement Landscapes

Pest and disease crises pose setbacks for tree-based restoration plans in Rwanda

Integrating tree health in agroforestry is crucial for conserving and enhancing biodiversity in Africa

From ‘bee havers’ to ‘bee keepers’: apiculture capacity-building for tree farmers in Kenya’s Migori County

Bringing research to life through roadshows in Western Kenya

Researchers find better use of food and wood waste: cooking fuel

Goals for the environment linked to peace targets

Tackling climate change with healthy soils

Official definition of agroforestry for improved policies in Peru

Trees make it easier to farm in harmony with nature

Oil-palm agroforestry and carbon storage: an alternative to monocultural plantations in Brazil

More rice and no fire on degraded peatland in Indonesia

Transforming the tree-seed sector in Ethiopia: phase 2 launches!

An exceptional introduction to agroforestry

Transitioning to a viable world: World Congress on Agroforestry!

Energetic Emerging Researchers Day at World Congress on Agroforestry

Participatory mapping shows routes to sustainable future in Zambia

How trees can rescue our diets in a failing food system

Resurging rattan?

NEW BOOK: Commodity-driven green economies: a pathway for sustainable development in Africa

IPBES report counts the ways to value nature

Looking for money for rainfed agriculture in Africa

ICRAF Director General Tony Simons inaugurates Germplasm Health Unit and storage facility

Cascading Ethiopia’s multi-stakeholder watershed and agroforestry platform

Three pillars support global soil health

FEATURE: Bringing a bright future by creating green jobs in Ethiopia

ICRAF hosts ambassadors on Nairobi campus

Chief Scientist invites external experts to explore five global challenges tackled by CIFOR-ICRAF

MUST-HAVE BOOK: Bioenergy for landscape restoration and livelihoods through agroforestry

Combat drought now: cheaper and more effective

More avocadoes, less water, less medicine

Building capacity of tree-seed centres in Ethiopia to ensure seed quality

Trees on family farms: a strategy for biodiversity conservation

FEATURE: Asia’s largest restoration programme launched at the World Forestry Congress

First-hand learning of the Land Degradation Surveillance Framework

Save the forests of the Congo Basin!

SMART initiative formalizes driving group for agroforestry development in San Martín

Scientists push for soil protection to restore nature

Humans need healthy skin. So does the Earth

Training to achieve optimal management of breeding seed orchards

Sustainable woodfuel in multifunctional landscapes

Farmers remain pivotal to any successful land restoration

Agroecological approaches delivering promise to effectively manage fall armyworm

Malawi trained in integrated pest management to rout fall armyworm

“Start with what you have and where you are”: ABCD

Presenting the evidence: bridging the research–policy gap

Reinventing the homegarden: research in Viet Nam sets a resilient future

Demand for CIFOR-ICRAF’s work is growing in Ethiopia

How’s your carbon footprint?

West African scientists learn methods for better understanding agricultural production

After the storm: sustaining cacao’s development momentum in Davao de Oro, Philippines

Better policy for Viet Nam’s homegardens will help meet the Sustainable Development Goals

“Mercedes” cacao: optimally driving recovery of Côte d’Ivoire’s chocolate sector?

Establishing a soil spectral laboratory in Rwanda

Training farmers, providing tools for improved quality of tree seeds in Ethiopia

Forest-fungi agroforestry: a new approach to easing the agricultural transition

Expanding soil spectroscopy across Africa

Ecosystem-based adaptation in Viet Nam reaps multiple benefits

How a community-led approach is regenerating the Sahel

Advice to young scientists and bon voyage Elisabeth Simelton

Transforming gender norms for land restoration in Kenya

FEATURE: Celebrating International Women’s Day from China

Chololo pits bring plentiful harvests to farmers in Tanzanian drylands

Farmers leading transfer of agroforestry technologies in Dodoma, Tanzania

Gold kapok: the “new cotton” for rural revitalisation in China

Researchers find way to estimate avocado fruit volumes

Co-designing inclusive and locally appropriate land restoration options

How to achieve global goals for forest conservation

Exploring the nutritional value of fruits of wild trees in Ethiopia

Regional partnerships for good science policy: notes from a Tropical East Asia workshop

Is an agroecological transition viable in Africa?

International Day of Women and Girls in Science: Interview with Nguyen Mai Phuong

Climate-smart coffee irrigation for Viet Nam’s Central Highlands

Systematic monitoring and mapping techniques for land restoration

CIFOR-ICRAF partners with the Society for Ecological Restoration to transform landscapes

Agroforestry App: set to accelerate agroforestry in India

Closing of a decade-long project in Northwest Viet Nam and launch of the Agroforestry Network

New initiative aims to boost restoration, agroforestry and carbon sequestration in the Amazon

CIFOR-ICRAF: new council member of the Alliance for Restoration in the Amazon

Preserving community forests: scientists propose a shift of management for local enterprises

On-farm landscape restoration can work if farmers’ needs are considered

Integrated pest management of fall armyworm in Malawi and Zambia

NEW: Status and outlook for agroforestry in ASEAN

Can multi-stakeholder platforms help stop the loss of biodiversity?

Germplasm Health Unit: food security and sustainable forestry through safe exchange

Livestock and ecosystems in the Sahel: the good, the bad and the ugly

What’s missing in land restoration: the ‘middle’

Tailor-made agroforestry in Peru

Building evidence of ‘permanence’ and ‘leakage’ for sustainable restoration

Who benefits? Study on farmers’ participation in land-based, carbon-sequestration projects

Podcast: soil isn’t dirt

Transformation of the world’s food systems must be grounded in healthy soil

Agroforestry benefits depend on a multitude of environmental conditions

SMART: more information for better decisions in Peru

It’s important: testing spectroscopy technology for soil analysis

Policy into action: accelerating achievement of the ASEAN Guidelines for Agroforestry Development

Eyes on the prize: making sustainable farming with cacao attractive to farmers in the Philippines

Community involvement key to landscape restoration, experts say at COP26

Shining a light on soils for land restoration

COP26: Experts vouch for nature-based solutions to tackle climate change

Connect energy transition to investment opportunities, experts tell COP26

Alnus agroforestry systems sequester carbon in Rwanda but are under pressure

Scientists devise new way to breed trees with multiple benefits for climate and biodiversity

Improving the quality of tree seeds in Ethiopia

How to monitor ecosystems-based adaptation

ASEAN Guidelines for Agroforestry Development: expanding scale

Conserving Juniperus procera in Ethiopia

Call to rethink cashew as a restoration crop in the Ivory Coast

Make room for mushrooms!

Microchips monitoring tree germplasm in India

National Tree Seed Network website for Ethiopia

Creating a new relationship with nature through a ‘stewardship economy’

How to plant lots of trees and keep them growing

FOOD. NATURE. PEOPLE.

Embrace the Earth: soil health is the foundation of sustainable food systems

An analysis of the success factors of incentive-based conservation in Peru generates lessons learned for the promotion of Agroforestry Concessions

Blending ‘soft skills’ with data science to expand agroforestry adoption in the Comoros

FEATURE: The rise and fall of rubber: effects on women and livelihoods

Action on agroforestry in Rwanda!

WEBINAR: A disconnect between rhetoric and action: restoring drylands for adaptation and mitigation

Experts say trees remain key to food systems

FEATURE INTERVIEW: Mapping Kenya’s charcoal value-chains for a sustainable future

Managing soil organic carbon and nitrogen in African grazing land

Co-production for sustainability: six modes

FEATURE: Key messages for the UN Food Systems Summit

MANUAL: Practitioner’s field guide: agroforestry for climate resilience

Dryland agroforestry promises greener future for Kenyan farmers

To fight fall armyworm, scientists affirm proposed approach

Is the Philippines ready to seize funding opportunities for forest and landscape restoration?

FEATURE: Trees on paper or trees to sustain livelihoods?

Training the new restorers of Mekong forest ecosystems

Why restore Asian drylands? Introducing the Landscape Partnership Asia

Promoting public policies based on scientific evidence in San Martin, Peru

FEATURE: Gender-transformative pathways in the regreening landscapes of Ghana

Kaleka agroforests protecting peatlands in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

Farmers sharing advice lead the spread of agroforestry

New framework for nature-based solutions for agricultural landscapes

Managed landscapes: missing from the new biodiversity goals?

Systems approach needed to control farmland fires in Indonesia

FEATURE INTERVIEW: Trees on farms come with hidden costs that can now be calculated

ICRAF to lead key Kenya-UK Partnership for Accelerated Climate Transitions project

A new chapter for Gullele Botanical Garden

Visualising data helps people understand choices and make decisions more easily

Multi-stakeholder partnership towards sustainable land management

UN Biodiversity Conference comes to Honghe Valley

Peru prepares for the post-2020 global framework for biodiversity

Speaking for the trees: why so many restoration projects fail

CGIAR food systems dialogue in Viet Nam

Land Degradation Surveillance Framework with Drylands Transform

Developing a climate-resilient economy in The Gambia through ecosystem-based adaptation strategies

Our aspirations matter!

Peru’s forestry authorities set to improve agroforestry concessions

Avocado, everyone?

Scientists call for protection of fruit and vegetable biodiversity

Preserving Mindanao’s highland paradise through conservation farming

Eat together, work together: piquing farmers’ interest in sustainable land management

Cascading the National Watershed and Agroforestry Multi-stakeholder Platform into the regions of Ethiopia

Too much water for rice, not enough to drink

Keeping track of environmental projects in the new normal: data does it

The power of proof: how model farms in the Philippines encouraged the expansion of scale of agroforestry

“It made me feel accomplished”: women stay in science and flourish as ICRAF “post-docs”

Mighty Earth: drive forward with rubber agroforestry

Africa’s drylands are getting more support. How to make the most of this

Men and women find farming a future aspiration. But not in their youth

Sustainable biochar: agroforestry and its application

“I see the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences closely collaborating with ICRAF for the journey ahead”

Adaptation and agroforestry: four decades of research initiated by Peter Huxley

‘Those unemployed before, they are now employed’

Can contract farming be inclusive and viable?

More agroforestry education needed in Southeast Asia

Climbing into the unknown

Eat more fruit and veggies!

Researchers recommend integrated pest management for fall armyworm

New laboratory for spectral analysis of soils and plants in Côte d’Ivoire

From fire-prone to fire-proof: how trees and crops can prevent wildfires

PODCAST: Trees, trees, trees: critical for biodiversity on land

How small-scale farmers jumped commercialisation hurdles in Ethiopia

Innovative farming is reducing migration and malnutrition in India

Vale David E. Thomas

Farming is risky but insurance can help

Rise up! Solutions for threatened mountain communities

Fruit, nuts, fish and more: forests for food

Earthrise in Kenya meets healthy soils, scientists and farmers

Evaluating weather and climate services for agriculture in Senegal

Trees on farms for biodiversity in Peru

App set to revolutionise agroforestry in India

Central Africa Humid Tropics Transect Sentinel Landscape: a stocktaking pilot study

How to create agroforestry systems on sloping land in Viet Nam

FEATURE: Here I have light to see: stretching rubber’s limits

Wallets and ecosystems will be happier if farmers grow illipe nut with rubber trees

Scientists call for action to save coffee forests

Trees fuelling their own death in Kenya’s capital city: a circular bioeconomy could save them

Catherine Muthuri on women’s leadership and COVID-19

‘When the strong arms leave the farms’… for a while, for good, for a better life

Learning how to apply the Land Degradation Surveillance Framework in Ethiopia

Volcanic ash: an untapped solution for mitigating climate change?

Oil palm can be sustainable!

Resilient Food Systems annual report: progress despite COVID-19

Fungal activity: what ‘wood’ they do?

Can Peru’s ‘agroforestry concessions’ stabilize Amazonian forest frontiers?

Trees gone? So is $6.3 trillion

A circular, biological economy?

Experts say trees give maximum value from rainwater

NEW BOOK: Diversity of agroforestry practices in Viet Nam

‘The sun tires our cocoa’: communities welcome half a million companion trees in Côte d’Ivoire

Mined 100 tree species of the tropics

As many ways to restore land as there are trees

Boost producers’ associations for a sustainable charcoal sector

Q+A: How women and girls can succeed in science

Going round in circles for good: women can benefit from a circular bioeconomy

CIFOR-ICRAF Podcast: Paving the way for women leaders in science and development

GLF 2021’s 16 Women Restoring the Earth: Susan Chomba

DRYAD: women making good in the woods

Transformative solutions to protect the planet’s biodiversity

COVID-19 causes coffee and potato problems in Peru

How the world can expand its food sources and fight hunger

On the road to deforestation-free cocoa in Cameroon

Kenya has been trying to regulate the charcoal sector: why it’s not working

Hungry for fungi? Now you can know if it’s safe

Indigenous fruits and vegetables can curb Africa’s malnutrition

Predicting economic impact from restoring forests and landscapes: lessons from Ethiopia

Overcome past reforestation challenges!

Researchers in Malawi and Zambia focus on agroecological solutions for fall armyworm

Neglected indigenous trees solve malnutrition and land degradation

FEATURE: Diverse agricultural landscapes for conservation of biodiversity and resilience of food systems

Reaching the field in the ‘new normal’

Continuing to work with soil

The world’s complex problems need complex solutions

New targets to protect biodiversity must include farmers and agriculture

Viet Nam uses the Land-Use Planning for Multiple Environmental Services framework for its provincial green-growth action plan

Refugees demand for energy can be met!

Growing grassroots climate changers

Mimicking nature to reduce agricultural impact on water cycles: mimetrics

Dashboards for decision-makers

The COVID-19 pandemic and agroecosystem resilience: early insights for building better futures

The golden rules for restoring forestland

How young Kenyans feel about farming goes against conventional wisdom

Illegal forest-zone oil palm in Indonesia

Agroforestry reconciles earthworm diversity and livelihoods in Viet Nam

Ethiopia’s ‘engagement landscape’: hope for the future

Agroforestry can enhance Viet Nam’s ambition for its Nationally Determined Contribution

A mobile application helps African farmers manage and restore their land

Niger formally adopts farmer-managed natural regeneration

Water is everywhere: oxygen signals in tree rings shows climate changes and the water cycle

Kenya’s Bioenergy Strategy supported by World Agroforestry

In Odisha, agroforestry and ‘handholding’ help farming families break out of the poverty–migration trap

Promise for the poor through developing value chains

Orphan crops are the key to better diets in Africa: but how to promote them?

Which trees can manage with the rather extreme conditions of active volcanoes?

BiodiversityR: modelling vegetable distribution in Africa

Farmers restore land in Africa with natural regeneration but how can we learn what practices work where and for whom?

Soil health critical for maintaining human health, biological diversity, researchers say

Digging deeper on World Soil Day 2020

Digging deeper into the soil

For many smallholder farmers in Tanzania, money and technology are not the only barriers to climate-change adaptation

Trade-offs along food value-chains: anticipate the unintended for better food and nutrition security

People, healthy soils and ecosystems in Africa

Options for regenerative energy in Africa through ecosystem-based bioenergy

Agroecology whets the global appetite for rice and fish

More abundant tree species unlikely to return after droughts

New initiative to prompt a paradigm shift toward resilient agriculture

POLICY SERIES: global agroecological transitions to sustainable farming: Kenya

Beyond bans: toward sustainable charcoal production in Kenya

Informing policy on tree biodiversity

Farmland Biodiversity Score in Rwanda’s report to the Convention on Biological Diversity

Landscape Partnership for Asia: restoring drylands and drought-prone areas

Kenyan farmers can bank on tree seeds

POLICY SERIES: global agroecological transitions to sustainable farming: India and Sri Lanka

Options for restoration with agroforestry in Brazil’s Rio Doce Basin

Ensuring a nutritious diet for all. Together

DRYAD: sustainable management of community forests in Cameroon

Transforming agri-food systems for the Sustainable Development Goals requires honest discussion on trade-offs

Restoration needs both women and men

Building back better by strengthening rural women’s resilience

Contributing to international conservation of tree biodiversity

PODCAST- Building back better: land restoration, gender and research ‘in’ development

Domestication of son tra

Key insights into land degradation from seven African countries

Can restoration concessions help save tropical forests?

Six tips for Africa’s restoration entrepreneurs

Carica papaya: a tree that keeps on giving

CIFOR-ICRAF scientists to speak at tree planting forum

Practical resources to support biodiversity of trees

A tale of an enclosure: an Ethiopian success story

Drones, dogs, ‘cocoons’ – it’s a new age for tree planting

Adapting to the climate crisis: how to change the game?

Tree biodiversity: research in development

Dispelling the top seven tree planting misconceptions

Chad: championing healthy soils and ecosystems through data

Regreening Africa’s consolidated seven-country baseline survey

Farmer-managed natural regeneration as a land-restoration strategy: under what conditions does it work?

Gendering migration: how straightforward is it?

Improving governance of trees can better conserve biodiversity

Latin America learning how much carbon can be stored in grazing land

‘Nutri-scapes’ a recipe for better nutrition

Prioritising agroforestry in the policy agenda: six recommendations for increasing scale

Agroecological management of fall armyworm: Africa, South Asia and South America

A perfect storm: Fire, haze and a global health crisis

Which tree, where in Nepal? Mapping for the national agroforestry policy

What does it take to change the Earth? India’s National Agroforestry Policy and beyond

Earth Overshoot Day 2020 arrives later due to pandemic-related slowdown in clearing forests

Tree roots reduce landslide risk

How many trees does a healthy watershed need?

“Engagement landscape” concept to underscore agroforestry projects in DRC’s Yangambi

‘Data streaming from the spectrometer’: a new dawn for soil assessments

New pruning techniques in Uganda are showing farmers that trees are more valuable in the ground than on the woodpile

Podcast| Financing the forests

Boosting restoration through the airwaves

Semantics and words matter for analyzing gender and social inclusivity in development projects

Termitomyces: exploring the world’s most mysterious mushroom

It is time to rethink Uganda’s policy approach to trees on farms

Investments in agricultural development: quantifying the socio-political and climate-change risks

Farmers’ experience and ecological knowledge proven valuable against land degradation in Mali

How and why to merge ecosystem-based adaption and risk finance?

Expert-assisted Decision Analysis supports agroforestry in Viet Nam

Improving the health of India’s soil doesn’t stop for COVID-19

How to feed a growing global population in the midst of a climate crisis

Amid multiple global crises, global forestry and agroforestry centres ‘reset’ with engagement landscapes

Coconut bashing?

FEATURE: A new vista emerging: local, diverse food chains

Building biodiverse food systems for an inclusive, resilient and safe future

Women and youth turning to tree-based enterprises for livelihoods in Mount Elgon, Uganda

Investors say agroforestry isn’t just climate friendly — it’s also profitable

France and CGIAR launch a new transformative partnership platform to foster the agroecological transition

Fourteen breeding seed orchards already established in Ethiopia

Trees: To plant or not to plant

Sacred forests and environmental protection among the Gedeo of Southern Ethiopia

A library for understanding the soils of the world

Why the energy and food nexus is critical in refugee context

Economic incentives to resolve conflicts in transboundary flows within watersheds: the case of the Cordilleras in the Philippines

Women farmers in Malawi and Zambia fighting fall armyworm

Climate-smart agriculture in Ethiopia and beyond: ‘We need to amplify the lessons’

The heat is on: Managing wood fuel sustainably in sub-Saharan Africa

Kenyan farmers adopt new agroforestry strategies through research and development program

Reshaping circular agriculture: Mountain Futures Insect Breeding Facility shaking up industries in rural China

Piloting climate-smart agriculture for climate-change adaptation in Viet Nam

COVID-19 recovery is a chance to improve the African food system

Ethiopia to grow 5 billion trees in the Second Green Legacy Campaign

Coping with climate change through agroforestry: the experience of the Ykalingas in the Philippines

Boosting environmental education in primary schools in Mali

Is our current food system sustainable?

Science and tradition: how indigenous communities manage forests

Monitoring safeguards at the community-level: are we delivering good or bad change?

Transforming Kenya’s invasive ‘mathenge’ bushes into charcoal farms

The challenge of charcoal

GLF Bonn: Food systems in focus at a time of crisis

Could bamboo-based agroforestry systems be the latest kind of climate-smart agriculture?

Combatting COVID-19 and CSSVD: a similar approach?

World Agroforestry gene bank germinates a future for healthy ecosystems

How do you feel about agroforestry?

What makes an integrated development plan truly integrated?

Improving small-scale crop production using evidence-based soils agronomy

Agroforestry ‘basins’ stir up big benefits for women in Kenya drylands

How trees and water fuel sustainable communities

Cocoa, chocolate industry donates $835,000 to help farmers fight COVID-19

Reimagining ecosystem-based adaptation practices based on community priorities and preferences in The Gambia

Sentinel Solutions for the Anthropocene

Innovation in understanding soils

A post-Covid19 future requires foresight to build back planetary health

Soil Spectral Calibration Library and Estimation Service

FEATURE: Go green and white: EU must mainstream natural capital accounting for sustainable food production and consumption

An exploratory study of cost-benefit analysis of landscape restoration

FEATURE: Organizing farmers into tree-based enterprises

FEATURE: The conundrum of agricultural insurance, climate change and biodiversity

Innovation platforms sweeten milk and honey value chains

What if we need more? Wildling propagation as an alternative for production of tree-planting material

The burning questions about Africa’s wood fuel

More stakes, more climbing beans, less malnutrition: Rwanda finds a solution in agroforestry

Insecurity in Niger: reversing the gains made in land restoration

Meeting in The Gambia delivers Banjul Tree Cover Resolution: ‘Every day that we delay comes at a cost’

Could agro-ecological approaches be a low-cost alternative towards fall armyworm control for smallholders in Zambia?

Ugandan teacher walks 664 km to raise awareness of shea trees: ‘My worry is extinction’

Why measuring youths’ aspirations is key to sustainable and inclusive rural development

Solutions for saving the world’s forests and restoring landscapes

The role of agroforestry in forest restoration

Not just farmers: understanding rural aspirations is key to Kenya’s future

In The Gambia, controlling wild fire offers nature-based solution to diminishing wild food and hungry monkeys

New resource hub will offer evidence-based solutions for land restoration

Study: Agroforestry may improve planetary health

ASEAN prepares for post-2020 biodiversity framework

Complex but adaptive: a fresh look at smallholder value chains and their development

Restoring Forests, Restoring Communities: Lessons from Shinyanga

Planting trees or growing them, do the words matter for restoring land?

Agricultural lands key to mitigation and adaptation

Projects funded by Germany make a difference to people, trees, ecology

Working together with the Makueni County Government to combat land degradation

Payments for ecosystem services in the Philippines: a win-win approach for communities, businesses, and the environment

Women’s place in Africa’s growing charcoal sector

Reversing desertification in Andhra Pradesh: a case for ‘engagement landscapes’

Economic growth and decent work from natural resources: how Sustainable Development Goal 8 will affect forests and forest-dependent livelihoods

Tokyo strives to build resilience with city trees and healthy farmlands around it

Enhancing capacity for resilient agriculture planning and programming in Kenya

New web app allows you to investigate performance of agricultural technologies

Diet crisis in Africa’s low income urban zones but transition to nutritious foods possible

When pastures are not green in the eyes of the youth

How climate finance and technology could better integrate women

Nature-based solutions – parts of the solution to the climate crisis

Building an Africa without hunger

As fires rage in Brazil, a new book shows how agroforestry can heal damaged land

UN Climate Convention learns of agroforestry for land restoration in Brazil

UN chiefs strengthen collaboration to achieve zero deforestation

Can African smallholders farm themselves out of poverty?

The challenge of ensuring water supply in the Philippines

Opinion | Trees: Generous Wild Hosts for Refugees in Uganda

International training in agroforestry for policy makers

Unveiling the Honghe Innovation Centre for Mountain Futures

Ethiopia is making maps to help improve soil health

For year-round micronutrients, ten species of fruit trees are better than just a few

Contributions of biodiversity to the sustainable intensification of food production

Food security in Africa – solutions that actually work

Gambling and scrambling: betting on trees for biodiversity

Agricultural areas affected in Mariana bet on diversifying production

Transforming agriculture: The role of agroforestry

In refugee crises, it’s crucial to maintain environment and trees

Trees for Food Security Project bearing fruit in Ethiopia

Why tree diversity in agroforestry matters: perspectives from the Comoros archipelago

ICRAF and FTA host first technical discussion on the development of a gender-responsive post-2020 global biodiversity framework

CIFOR and ICRAF join 11,000 scientists to declare ‘climate emergency’

Participants call experience sharing and on-farm training an “eye-opener”

Pragmatics take precedence in scientific approach to landscape restoration

Unity in the face of the global climate crisis: How sharing expert knowledge translates to on-the-ground solutions

Healthy diets at risk by expansion of industrial agriculture

New project offers circular-economy solutions for refugee and host communities in East Africa

Towards a National Watershed and Agroforestry Multi-Stakeholder Platform in Ethiopia

Getting Ethiopia REDD+ ready

Trees and water: don’t underestimate the connection

Trees can reduce landslides, say experts in ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction

Matching local knowledge with science to promote regreening

‘Climate-smart agriculture’ is turning 10: is it time to celebrate?

‘Fruit-tree portfolios’ for nutrition and health: a new approach

Puntland: restoring land and livelihoods

Restoring land with agroforestry: new guide published

More evidence needed to increase the scale and speed of land restoration

It’s time for Individually Determined Contributions to reducing emissions

Science for restoration of degraded land

UNCCD moves to increase soil carbon sequestration, accepts report recommendations

Norwegian MPs and quality tree-seeds for Ethiopia

Rangelands are always multifunctional landscapes

As agriculture resurges in Somalia, CGIAR centres, Government, FAO and donors plan to help it thrive

How to grow a national agroforestry policy

Options to restock trees in a Ugandan refugee setting: an ICRAF study

Can the resuscitation of a fading way of life help close the gender income gap?

FEATURE INTERVIEW: Nature-based solutions for restoration of Uganda’s degraded land

Collaborating with farmers is the key to restoring degraded land

Unlocking the potential of forests: drawing lessons from Yunnan’s mushroom trade in Southeast Asia

Why aren’t more scientists studying mushrooms?

Benefits from trees regreen land and livelihoods

FEATURE: Why financing is tied to the future of a biodiverse planet

OPINION: Investing in soil health key to closing the yield gaps

Find out how farmers are restoring drylands in Kenya

‘Income that surpasses the waiting’: in dire need of trees, Malawi tries woodlots, bees, bamboo

Improving dairy production through agroforestry and innovation

Drylands Development Programme: changed lives in the Sahel

If cocoa prices have fallen, why isn’t your chocolate bar cheaper?

Ernesto Morón: cultivating timber trees in the Peruvian Amazon

Regreening activities kick-off in Somalia

The missing middle: how enabling environments will translate global commitments into local action

Pause, reflect, learn, adapt

Bitter or sweet trade for Africa’s cocoa farmers?

The role of biodiversity in agroforestry and other types of smallholder farming

‘Forget tree planting, start tree growing’

Successful agroforestry options in Viet Nam

Mass movement and the ‘femininization’ of agriculture

From Jamaica to Togo to Vanuatu, agroforestry to help countries prevent climate breakdown

Agroforestry at 40 !

Value unchained: putting money into the hands that grow our food

Trees: a pairing for coffee, chocolate and wine

Where — and why — is agroforestry hiding?

Trees in the mist: domesticating local forest trees to restore the Comoros archipelago

Agroforestry: Development underdog headed for center stage in global sustainability efforts

Public–private–people partnership for cocoa and forests in Côte d’Ivoire

FEATURE: Can we grow our way out of the charcoal crisis?

Looking for the right tree for the right place? Agroforestry Species Switchboard Version 2

Understanding success in research-for-development projects

UN Drylands ambassador calls for greater focus on restoration of tropical drylands

Eradicating hunger through the African Orphan Crops Consortium

Reasons for low uptake of climate change technologies

Mobilizing youth for forestry development

What Cameroon can teach others about managing community forests

Gender equality in agricultural development starts with understanding complexity

A roadmap to guide regreening in Mali

Kenyan value chains are crucial for regreening efforts

Using the Land Degradation Surveillance Framework to assess land health in Rwanda

Technologies for land restoration showcased

Mushrooms for prosperity in Chin State

Fixing forests: how Decision Analysis is working on the ground in East Africa

Learning from past initiatives for expanding the scale of land restoration in Africa

Flood-Based Livelihoods Symposium: Harnessing the potential of flood water

What’s good for business is good for forests in Indonesia

Restoring drylands and empowering farmers: lessons from the Drylands Development Programme

Four Surprising Ways Mode and Gender Can Transform Your Survey Data

Beating Famine turns its attention to the Sahel

Kenya challenged to meet regreening target

Land Degradation Surveillance Framework deployed in Senegal

Agricultural practices supported by IFAD reveal potential climate mitigation benefits

International Women’s Day 2019: Think equal, build smart, innovate for change in the Philippines

Growing Mounds of Waste Offer African Women Unexpected Business Opportunities in the Bioenergy Sector

Humanitarians struggle to address environment: ‘It’s nice but it’s not crucial’

Trees nurture nutrition

Trees on farms in Honduras: a chance for biodiversity

Land restoration is a strategic investment in Ethiopia

New paradigm unfolds to rapidly regreen Africa

Mekong Expert Group on Agroforestry: impact on ASEAN

Agricultural innovation in the mountains: a new direction

Why planting trees on farms benefits farmers under a changing climate

We can forecast weather and prepare our farm better

Technologies to enhance and monitor soil carbon for Africa

ASEAN Guidelines for Agroforestry Development set to revolutionize land use in Southeast Asia

Operationalizing the Agroforestry Strategy and Plan for Rwanda

Challenging gender norms around trees and land restoration in West Africa: can research be transformative?

Trees on farms contributing to post-2020 biodiversity framework

Trees on farms: a biodiversity assessment tool

In Andhra Pradesh, World Agroforestry dives deep into the science of Zero-Budget Natural Farming

The Tamale Declaration: a regreening plan for northern Ghana

REDD+ and the Sustainable Development Goals: the case of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Climate-Smart Agriculture Papers: new book answers decade-old questions

Livestock and silvopastoral systems in Latin America: how to measure the greenhouse gases

Call to action: more trees to restore landscapes and improve livelihoods in northern Ghana

Successful farmer-managed natural regeneration in Ghana: a case study

Refugees impatient for seedlings as UK MPs open new season of agroforestry and other tree-based solutions in NW Uganda

More than 100,000 installations of BiodiversityR: growing a better understanding of biodiversity

How will the Philippines measure the success of its flagship reforestation program?

A Green Climate Fund program that all Philippine sectors can call their own

Restoring land and increasing resilience needs women

Uganda’s biodiversity plan: challenges and ambitions

How do you restore land in a small country?

Agroforestry and land health in Malawi

In the mountains of China and Ethiopia lies a joint future

Chocolate and cocoa in Côte d’Ivoire

The potential of agroforestry to enhance Land Degradation Neutrality: case study from Tanzania

Wealthy women and a healthy nation through high-quality coffee

For the love of restoration

Refining honey production through investing in bee houses

Planting trees on a stony hill: a story with pictures

Can strengthening women’s influence in land-use decisions lead to a greater adoption of cocoa agroforests?

Free community labour: critical to Ethiopia’s drive to restore land and improve livelihoods

Priorities for Green Climate Fund identified by the Philippines

Strengthening agricultural research in Kenya

Land restoration in Africa builds momentum

Fostering public-private partnerships to enhance smallholders’ resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa

Why keep Africa’s dryland forests alive?

“We started as a hungry nation” but trees on farms are now key

The forest is an ally not an enemy: can Peruvian farms support biodiversity?

Weather forecasts for all: Improving access to weather information for women and ethnic minorities

Beyond selfies: African youth vow to restore the continent’s landscapes

Indonesia looking to protect biodiversity through trees on farms

Options for trees on farms in Kalimantan, Indonesia

We need a revolution in land management, says ICRAF’s Tony Simons

Lessons from Kenya on how to restore degraded land

How soil scientists can do a better job of making their research useful

From farm to fork: strengthening direct sales between smallholders and consumers in Cusco, Peru

Agroforestry could make agriculture emissions-neutral by 2050

Philippines to access the Green Climate Fund

Innovative biochar-producing gasifier stoves improve livelihoods, landscapes

Farm ponds offer a unique integrated solution for Kitui County, Kenya

Cooling forest rainbow water vital contributor to farmer livelihoods

Pay more attention to forests to avert global water crisis, researchers urge

Coming soon: ASEAN Guidelines for Agroforestry Development

Forests and water are inseparable

Agroforestry with refugees in Uganda: overwhelming demand and a huge desire to plant

Restoring degraded tropical dryland in extreme conditions: the case of Sumba Island

Agroforestry systems for producing nutritious food for smallholders in Odisha, India

Regreening Africa!

Third cohort graduates from the UC Davis African Plant Breeding Academy

The value of gender, diversity and inclusion in ICRAF

Synergizing climate change mitigation and adaptation in Cameroon

Global Environment Facility’s Integrated Approach Programme on food security gains momentum

How governments can monitor progress towards better nutrition

What to look for in new games: Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp?

Agroforestry Concessions are a strategic mechanism for smallholders in the Amazon. How do we make it work?

Agroforestry gives Kenyan indigenous community a lifeline

Breeding success: Bunmi Olasanmi and the UC Davis African Plant Breeding Academy

A theory of change for better monitoring of the Philippine Enhanced National Greening Program

What Kenya needs to do to take advantage of its rainfall

Sharing the knowledge from Mỹ Lợi climate-smart village in Việt Nam

Collective effort toward more sustainable forestry management in Viet Nam

How planting trees can protect cocoa plants against climate change

Banning charcoal isn’t the way to go. Kenya should make it sustainable

Uganda will use trees on farms to meet national biodiversity targets

Humans not trees are the solution for the Philippines

Resolution on harnessing trees on farms for a green economy in the Philippines

Strategy for agroforestry development in Viet Nam

Spilling the beans: Peru’s coffee value chain in a changing climate

How much carbon dioxide is emitted from smallholders’ farms on peatland?

Coordinator of World Agroforestry Centre Viet Nam awarded by Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

Bhutan and Nepal learn more about agroforestry in Vietnam

The Philippines needs a national agroforestry policy to meet the Sustainable Development Goals

Gender relations and gaps in the cocoa value-chain in Peru

How to grow a bamboo industry

World Agroforestry Centre celebrates ten years of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Silviculture can improve farmers’ incomes

Empowering farmers, sustaining changes

Explaining the complex: putting the best available evidence into the hands of decision makers

Women in Kenya improve their families’ food security through simple land-restoration technology

Regreening Ethiopia!

ASEAN is rising to the climate-change challenge facing agriculture and forestry

Mekong Group grows support for agroforestry in ASEAN

Innovation platforms for food security in eastern and southern Africa

A pick and a spade may triple farmers’ yields in the Kenyan drylands

Finding evidence for land restoration strategies

Nepal makes progress towards a national agroforestry policy

Weather project helps Vietnamese women adapt to climate change

In the hands of farmers: Ethiopia’s push to restore degraded lands

Peru’s integrated approach to nationally determined contributions can boost agroforestry’s role in fighting climate change

Cracking the candlenut challenge

SHARED knowledge to promote sustainable woodfuel

Lack of knowledge may impede economic potential

Kenyan farmers reap economic, environmental gains from ABCDs of agroforestry

Indonesia and Japan committed to realize low-carbon development

Gubernorial Regulation promulgated on green economic growth in South Sumatra, Indonesia

Agroforestry to meet the Paris Agreement

Mekong Expert Group on Agroforestry

Can agroforestry propel climate commitments?

Winners and losers in tree domestication: the agarwood story

The significance of planted teak for smallholders

Forestry ministry calls for help to transfer 12.7 million hectares to communities

EverGreen Agriculture: a solution for degraded landscapes

Could an ancient practice be the key to food security in Southeast Asia?

ASEAN foresters need closer integration

5Capitals-G: gender-responsive methodology for value chain development

Land Restoration for Peace and profit

Can 365 Years of Climate History Help Prevent Crises in East Africa?

Scaling-Up investment into Land Restoration: Getting the Biggest Bang for the Buck

How U.N. proposed climate budget cuts will impact REDD+ programs

Integrated approaches for multifunctional landscapes

Scientists find fungus with an appetite for plastic in rubbish dump

Macaúba palm: energy, food and income for smallholder farmers in Northeast Brazil

How much for the local apples?

Fighting economic inequality through the food supply chain

What is CGIAR doing on soil carbon and climate change?

Why better soil could mean peace and prosperity for African farmers

Why China should include a gender-perspective in its climate change policies

Farms, forests and fuel in Sweden and Indonesia

Hello cashew, goodbye chamka

Smart use of trees: Co-investment scheme improves livelihoods, maintains ecosystem services

Toward a sustainable cocoa sector in Ghana

Toward an even greener Indonesia 2030: technical support for plans that work

Twenty-five years of transformations for impact in Southeast Asia

Sharing innovations in climate-smart agriculture

GEF-funded program on resilient food security targets smallholder farmers in 12 African countries

ASEAN calls for agroforestry guidelines

From savannah to forest: women’s roles in Sumba

Value chain development: improved support for smallholders and SMEs

How Growing Trees Helps Fight Poverty in Cameroon

ICRAF presents the role of evidence and improved soil management for land restoration in sub-Saharan Africa at the European Development Days

People matter for peat

Attention to detail is necessary for zero deforestation intentions to succeed, say scientists

“Turning the onus of restoration into a bonus for farmers” in Brazil

Landscape restoration in Ethiopia brings watershed to life

Smallholder farmers in Kenya in the race against climate change

Highlights of an environmental trip to Kenya

Green Growth in Indonesia meets the Bonn Challenge

Multifunctional Agriculture: Achieving Sustainable Development in Africa

How to be sustainable: work together

Agroforest landscapes to reduce the risk of floods?

Buol Government in Indonesia begins its own farmers’ learning groups

Kenya launches national program to harvest rainwater

A world with trees but without the word forest – a thought experiment

New study could help policymakers quantify China’s afforestation programme

Helping rice farmers grow trees for adapting to climate change

How does the Fairtrade system impact on coffee farmers?

Profiting from well-chosen tree species: improving the productivity of farming systems in Northwestern Vietnam

The namesake returns to Sandalwood Island

Connecting the dots between forests, water and climate

Why pay for a weather forecast if it’s free online?

Soil management and land restoration vital to meeting climate change and sustainable development targets

Forests and fungi: Mekong communities reap the rewards of a 500 million-year-old partnership

International Women’s Day 2017: Women in the Changing World of Work

Gender in agriculture: creating opportunities for women

What stories can a pixel tell?: monitoring landscape changes through remote sensing

Lessons from an integrated systems research program in Central Mekong

Unblocking bioenergy a huge challenge for Indonesia

Trees in Andes to counter Peru’s climate and water crisis, says Swiss scientist

Indonesian district government funds replication of ICRAF approaches

Indonesian president hands over management of forests to indigenous people

ICRAF and One Acre Fund chart ways forward on trees

Cool insights for a hot world: trees and forests recycle water

Chad residents in planting drive with tree nurseries

Engaging marginalized groups in the Greater Mekong region through action research

Establishing the foundation for climate services in Rwanda

Reliable and affordable methods for measurement of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture now available

Huge potential for non-timber forest products in Viet Nam

African ESP conference: Natural capital accounting critical to sustainable ecosystem

Bioenergy and sustainability in Latin America and Africa: bridging the gaps through South–South learning

Latest Agroforestry Species Switchboard offers additional plant databases

Trees for food security in Eastern Africa

‘Tis the season for frankincense, a suitable restoration tree for the Horn of Africa

Towards a global centre of excellence for mining restoration

From Paris to Marrakech: forests, climate change and REDD+ in Southeast Asia

The last drop is what makes the cup run over

Harvest time has become something thrilling!

The role of agroforestry in climate-change adaptation in Southeast Asia

Put Soils First, African Soil Seminar concludes

Genebanking.

Biodiesel from palm oil: finding the sweet spot between ecology and economy

Climate conference COP22 calls for action on land restoration, coordination, financing

Potential big wins in agriculture for climate change through landscape restoration

Bioenergy as a pathway to accomplishing climate goals

World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Statement to High Level Segment at COP22, Marrakech, November 2016

Implementing climate targets in Africa though climate technology transfer

Synchronous influence and partnerships: keys to research on Livelihood Systems

Black pepper: a climate-smart solution for homegardens?

Soil mapping for accurate land health decisions

Fresh water, the reward of land restoration, flows in Ethiopia’s dry zone

Agroforestry for climate commitments and the Sustainable Development Goals

Research cuts a potential new path to faster, cheaper tropical forest restoration: Thinning

Investing in performance: dialogue for impactful public-private partnership

Trees on farms help Indian farmers fight climate change

A Better Deal—Incentivising wise land use with the Tropical Landscape Finance Facility

Setting the stage for agroforestry expansion in Eastern Congo

Connecting research, practice and policy to upscale climate-smart agriculture

What will it take to restore 100 million hectares of land in Africa?

Straight talk: Grants are needed to develop scalable community-based Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) business models to achieve AFR100

‘Seeing is believing’: contagious ideas for smarter farms in Sulawesi

Turning honey into money: AgFor farmers bring products to market

Resilient productivity: growing enough safe food for a rising population in Africa

Scientists use technology to shine a light on Africa’s farms

The Shinyanga revolution: Tanzanian success story creates momentum for land restoration

A new hope for agroforestry in Myanmar

Save China’s wild bees to safeguard global food supply: New study calls for more trees and fewer chemicals on China’s farms

Stakeholders move to enhance productivity and efficiency in Kenya’s dairy sector for lower greenhouse gas emissions

10 options for agriculture at Marrakech climate talks

Fig trees throw down a lifeline to a healthier planet

Two books launched at ICRAF Science Week 2016

ICRAF’s Landscape Portal: Data geeks building a global public good

What makes a farmer grow a tree? It depends.

In Kenya, farmers see early rewards from adding legumes and trees to their farms

Today we’ve blown our year’s allowance

Resolving the khat conundrum: when a profitable crop has downsides

Nipa-Nipa reserve saved by multilateral alliance of government, farmers and NGOs

It only takes prunings from trees on farms and efficient stoves for smallholder farmers to meet their cooking energy needs

More mouths to feed. Part 1: Harnessing climate-smart agriculture to secure food supply

More mouths to feed. Part 2: Expanding climate-smart agriculture to secure food supply

How Happiness is breeding plants for Africa’s future

Restoration through agroforestry in Brazil

Promoting early-maturing, oil-rich shea trees and holding off the charcoal threat

Trees on farms: the missing link in carbon accounting

Forest people of DR Congo guide orphan crop research

Indigenous African crops meet state of the art plant breeding

Profits, plates and plots: the link between farmers’ diets and their farms

A talk with the Tala-andig tribe: thoughts on development, deeper engagement and mutual respect

Research centres, banks, businesses, civil society and farmers join forces to fight future food shortages in Asia

Soil inhabitants hold together the planet’s food system

Success factors for land and water management in Africa

More important than ever to work together to influence agricultural and forestry policies to feed and protect the planet

Seeing swidden

Cambodia and Myanmar call for more help to develop agroforestry

One landscape, one people: meeting national and international goals in ASEAN

Agroforestry is a ‘win-win’ for developing nations

Oil cake from biofuel extraction further supports India’s ‘smokeless’ villages

Can we build a better project: assessing complexities in development projects

World’s most popular greenhouse gas calculators for agriculture are 60% accurate in tropical developing countries

Kolaka Timur District moves to adopt agroforestry

Government asks International Fund for Agricultural Development to continue support for agroforestry

The A to Z of soil biodiversity

Smallholder farmers in Malawi are growing fertilizer trees on their farms to improve food production

In Nicaragua, a staggering diversity and density of trees on farms

From Sumba to Sulawesi: farmers learn from success

Despite a project’s closure, Sulawesi governments promise to encourage agroforestry

Another local government decides to support agroforestry

Structuring perceptions and simulating the reality of land-use changes in training in landscape governance

Agroforests expanding across landscapes in Northwest Viet Nam

Agroforestry having an impact on farmers in eastern Indonesia

An agroforestry view on crop modelling

Starting small, thinking big: seven ingredients that help smart agriculture thrive

Viet Nam learning the importance of weather forecasts with agricultural advice

While raising crop yields, African thorn tree Faidherbia albida captures large amounts of carbon

Business-case training workshop jump-starts co-investment in Philippine watershed

Jeneponto District strategises to create sustainable livelihoods and conserve the environment

Finding long-term solutions for degraded peat land: video

Experts’ advice on woodfuel governance in Burkina Faso

A holistic approach to improving development decisions

A game changer: learning and adapting to climate change in Ghana

Abaca to receive ‘sustainability’ boost in the Philippines

Translate research into action for inclusive development, say GCARD3 conference speakers

Discussion on CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry

Agroforestry helping to preserve Philippines’ largest reserve

Is wellbeing possible without biodiversity?

ICRAF-Kenya hosts CGIAR site integration workshop

Agroforestry leads as investors and governments support land restoration in Latin America

Bees and shea help women in Mali diversify their income

Agroforestry key to resilience in Tonga

Are women and men equal in agriculture in Thailand?

Homegardens alone cannot ensure food security

Could moringa be the next superfood?

Combining public goods and private interests – heads of CIFOR and ICRAF discuss forest finance

Agroforestry offers sustainable alternative to worrying trend in Mekong region

Building a resilient agriculture sector in Rwanda through climate information services

Laos farmers benefit from new teak agroforestry system

Forests and trees drive sustainable business and empowerment

Could agroforestry help save Bolivia’s rainforests?

Making climate finance work for smallholders

Malawi debates support for fruit production

Nurturing trees for better livelihoods in East Africa

Carbon farming: a crucial part of the global climate solution

International Day of Forests 2016: What’s the state of the world’s forests?

ASEAN countries discuss role of education in fight against climate change

China’s rubber expansion could stretch biodiversity and livelihoods to the limit

Producing bioenergy with agroforestry could be a model for Indonesia: Tony Simons

Organizations fighting for soil

Creating a ‘smokeless’ village in India

New partnership for Biochar in Africa

Bantaeng District in Indonesia regulates rewards for ecosystem services

Upskilling for agriculture in India

A new guide to traditional plant-based medicines for livestock in East Africa

At launch, the Wangari Maathai Foundation unveils major project for environment and society

Conflict over Nipa-Nipa Grand Forest Park set to end

Innovative finance for innovative landscapes

Better weather information helps save animals during cold spells

Tackling the unknown: Pragmatic ways to evaluate sustainability

Sustaining life with trees

Setting the benchmark: the scientific basis of climate-smart agriculture

Women’s rights, biodiversity and Africa Environment Day

FAO reports on 40 years of community-based forestry

Agriculture in the 2016 climate change talks

CGIAR research program calls for new partners

Asia-Pacific Forest Communication Network meets urgent need

One tree, many trunks: agroforestry and the Sustainable Development Goals (Part 1)

One tree, many trunks: ASEAN, national governments and smallholders (Part 2)

Climate-smart landscapes: can REDD+ create them?

Fighting malnutrition in Africa with improved traditional plants

Serving society: forestry and people

Trees shown to increase groundwater recharge

The ‘hidden’ biodiversity sustaining our agricultural systems

Clean up landscapes to clean up Zika

Growing an agroforested future at Asia-Pacific Forestry Week

Growing hope with trees: farmers’ learning groups in Buol, Indonesia

Indonesia set to expand use of bioenergy

Bioenergy crops need to be chosen carefully

Making the most of mangroves

Bioenergy can bring clean power to remote areas of Indonesia

Interactive essay explores how science and innovation in agriculture is changing lives

Recognizing women in science

Success in thirsty Sumba a challenge for researchers

Highly resilient secondary tropical forests rapidly sequester carbon

Power in balance: encouraging news about gender from Southern Sulawesi

Indonesia’s Kajang indigenous community achieves land rights

Threat or opportunity? Transforming the wood energy sector

Mapping Malawian farmers’ vulnerability to the impacts of climate shocks

Of Trees and Banks

Coffee-based agroforestry: a new way to increase farmers’ income in Hulu Lambuya Forest in Southeast Sulawesi

A burning issue: woodfuel, public health, land degradation and conservation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Local knowledge for restoration in a rubber-dominated landscape in SW China

For more and better-quality food production, take care of pollinators

Immense benefits from agroforestry in rural Cameroon

Agroforestry as an effective means to implementing REDD+ in Africa

Increasing farmers’ resilience in Central Viet Nam through agroforestry

COP21: A coming of age for the climate-smart agriculture for enhanced nutrition agenda?

Common but differentiated responsibilities resolved but is it applied consistently?

Tree–crop interactions: agroforestry in a changing climate

Tree nurseries increase availability of quality seedlings

Data revolution needs decision science for sustainable development

Strengthening partnerships through advanced agroforestry research in Viet Nam

Bhutan learns how to improve payments for ecosystem services

Holistic adaptation needed for smallholders in the Philippines

Don’t trade away the climate

Reaching the ‘how’ of landscape restoration: experts from ICRAF, IUCN discuss in Paris

Hosing down hype but not burying hope

Trees for wood energy and land restoration

Partnering to scale-up climate-smart agriculture in Africa

Private companies partner with small producers to create sustainable supply chains of the future

Agroforestry can help mitigate climate change in India

ICRAF Statement to the UNFCCC COP21 High Level Session, Paris, December 2015

With trees on farms, climate-change mitigation is a co-benefit of broader socioeconomic gains

Overcoming hurdles: agroforestry as a means to reaching national climate targets in Africa

The Soil Scientists’ Lament

Let’s green our farms to save the earth, say experts at the Paris COP21

Cultivating African fruit trees for health and environmental benefits

Agroforestry, climate change and Indonesia’s green economy

Rainfall: a new way to look at trees for climate mitigation

“It’s time to stop talking and start acting” : Agroecological farming for people and the planet

Changing the rhythm of Al Gore or changing the algorithm in Paris?

To Paris COP21 with an agroforestry message

Reluctantly, Malawi’s farmers cut down trees to survive

Farming worms for climate-smart agriculture in Vietnam

Multipurpose trees help Tanzania smallholders build a resilient farming system

Considerations for successful forest restoration in a changing climate

Liming farmers brace for dry season with cover crops

Surviving the long dry season in Konawe Selatan with improved farming systems

Farmers and funders need to open their eyes to the benefits of integrated landscapes

From knowing to reaping benefits from trees in the Philippines

Bioenergy and development: the investment case for sustainable production systems

ICRAF/IASS Conference on Bioenergy and Development: Statement of the co-chairs

Beyond eucalyptus woodlots: what’s on the agroforestry menu for communities around Virunga?

Farmer master chefs reveal the colourful diversity of food

PUB or coffee shop: how to inform landscape watershed management?

Overlooked no more, precious fruit tree comes into its own in West Africa’s Sahel

Maize farmers convert to agroforestry

More sustainable and climate-smart farms with agroforestry

From outputs to outcomes: achieving impact at scale

Dehazing Indonesia’s effort to support sustainable timber production and self-sufficiency in food, energy and water

Shining a light below the surface: digital soil maps support decision making

Bioenergy boosted through international agreement in Bali

Bioenergy for Indonesia means improving smallholders’ livelihoods and maintaining the environment

Why food waste is a concern for tropical forest conservation

Sustainable bioenergy and the Sustainable Development Goals in Indonesia

Steps towards Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions for Kenya’s dairy sector

For every tree a reason — research “in” rather than “for” agroforestry development

‘Livelihoods insetting’ attracts oil-palm players

Understanding gender dimensions of agriculture and climate change in smallholder farming communities

Improving timber and non-timber products in Indonesia

Kenya integrates climate-smart agriculture into its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution

Could rubber come from sunflowers and dandelions in the future?

The SDGs should serve as a challenge to ICRAF scientists

The green alliance that is restoring a national park

Why are Vietnamese farmers not planting trees amid annual crops?

Mangrove forest management: lessons from Thailand

ICRAF at the Global Landscapes Forum: Boosting landscape restoration with agroforestry

Solutions that grow on trees: agroforestry’s niche in the Sustainable Development Goals

Future leaders needed to tell the story of climate change

Millions of farmers around the world practice climate-smart agriculture

Meeting the SDGs with climate-smart agriculture

Open letter to world leaders from the CGIAR centres

In Indonesia, a model of forest management rises from the mud

New report highlights cost of land degradation and potential for agroforestry in rehabilitation

Improving measurements of CO2 production from dead wood

The potential of trees for energy

The global agroforestry challenge

‘De-risk’ the wood energy sector to unleash green growth

Agroforestry farmers’ field schools spread the word effectively

Smart-Tree Invest revitalizes ecosystem-services group in Bukidnon

Myanmar looks to agroforestry for its uplands

More than just cooking: linking energy and food security

Community bylaws improve landscape management

Policy dialogue on social forestry in Southeast Asia: investing in a sustainable future for people and forests

Safeguarding the world’s freshwater resources: Global Forests and Water Action Plan launched

Report shows substantial global progress in forest management, but more to be done

Approach a landscape from the ground or lose your way in words

In Côte d’Ivoire, PES project protects river and restores biodiversity on cocoa land

Brushing up charcoal’s image

Forest fashion, food and music wows Congress delegates: a photostory

The more trees the better

LUMENS lights the way to a green economy

Village Forest licenses in Indonesia: what are they really for?

How will future rural landscapes develop?

The right tree for the right place: vegetationmap4africa v2 includes smartphone app

Better understanding of mixed crop and livestock systems needed under climate change

More transfer of knowledge needed South–South

How indigenous are you?

New research platform faces challenges

FAO adds agroforestry to toolbox

Can trees help Vietnamese farmers escape poverty?

Trees for food and income in Uganda

Water for development

Model shows human impact on threatened tree species and their adaptability to climate change

Forests and society a major theme at the XIV World Forestry Congress

Stopping haze when it rains: lessons learned from 20 years of Alternatives-to-Slash-and-Burn research in Indonesia

Using science to support the development of climate-smart agriculture in East Africa

Momentum builds for role of trees in health and nutrition

Agroforestry among Kenyan farmers’ tactics for climate change adaptation

Planetary debt bondage

Farms with trees and crops recover quicker from natural disasters

Stronger collaboration for co-investment in ecosystem services

The hills are coming to life

First ‘fruit tree portfolios’ established in Kenya, in a novel approach to improved year-round nutrition

Unlocking the potential of sustainable agroforestry practices: Farmers meet ICRAF staff at agricultural fair

She who makes the rules wins!

Linking evidence with action: the pathway to climate-smart agriculture

Meet the Rainwater Champions – Stories from Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda

Building farmers’ capacity more effectively and inclusively

One step closer towards successful agroforestry in Liming, China

New research: rubber expansion threatens biodiversity and livelihoods

What do four decades of earth observation tell us about land degradation in the Sahel?

Oil palm on mineral soil in Indonesia is not changing soil carbon

Restoring land for and with Kenyan pastoralists

Charcoal production in sub-Saharan Africa can be sustainable

Climate-smart agriculture: propaganda or paradigm shift?

Researchers from Viet Nam and Lao PDR learn how to use the Agroecological Knowledge Toolkit

Son tra, the H’mong Apple

Mars and ICRAF: Illuminating the ‘dark box’ of agroforestry

Getting a picture of when nature isn’t a friend to farmers

Keeping healthy and saving trees

Agroforestry is vital to the ASEAN economic community

Experts and farmers propose strategies for using agroforestry to restore degraded lands in Brazil

Magna Carta and the road to agroforestry

Towards a sustainable tree-based bioenergy sector in sub-Saharan Africa

Livestock mitigation: Opportunities for farmers, climate agreements across the globe

Agroforestry among ‘100 Under $100’ tools for women’s empowerment

A tornado and heatwave welcome a new climate-smart village in Viet Nam

Key lessons for REDD+ schemes in swidden landscapes

Future farmers in a climate-smart village create symbols of hope

Equity and REDD+: are we there yet?

Agroforestry resonates in London

Using agroforestry and forestry management to mitigate and adapt to climate change in Cassou area, Burkina Faso

A message from Wambena and Yepase to the world

Farmers’ attitudes to tree planting in Malawi

A new tool for making big decisions without perfect information

New tool offers development practitioners opportunity to measure resilience and report impact

More money and less risk for African eco-farmers

Minister explains the new Indonesian Government’s approach to forests and the people

Reforestation is more than carbon

New study shows that tree dieback affects the climate change mitigation potential of a dry afromontane forest in northern Ethiopia

New report says forests and trees could be major factor in efforts to end global hunger

Participatory, on-farm research in Viet Nam is a challenge!

‘Is it good or bad?’ Challenging views about swidden agriculture

Can poor villages improve their livelihoods and protect their environment?

Trees and forests are vital in battling hunger and climate change; new report

The past, present and future of swidden agriculture

Easier and faster processing of njansang heralds opportunities for local development

Livestock: A true friend of land regeneration

Indonesian agriculture isn’t as ‘green’ as planned

Agroforests set to replace monocrops in Northwest Viet Nam

New coordinated research initiative launched in Viet Nam

Rapid, low-cost technologies generate high-value soils information for planners and farmers

Learning to make Kenyan agriculture ‘climate-smart’

BLEANSA: The makings of an evergreen agriculture info hub for Southern Africa

New tool offers development practitioners opportunity to measure resilience and report impact

Australian support for agroforestry development in Viet Nam

Leading scientist warns of impacts of climate change in Asia

Linking fertilizer subsidies to sustainable farming with trees

A national agroforestry policy is an imperative for Viet Nam

Xishuangbanna, China would benefit from sustainable rubber management

From a desk to a Vietnamese agroforest: biography of a scientist

The twin promise of food and bioenergy security in Africa

Viet Nam needs a tree-domestication strategy

Fertilizer tree options for farmers

Farmers in Viet Nam committed to developing agroforestry systems

Catalyzing adoption of trees for food security in southern Africa: Some lessons from eastern Africa

The winning combination for scaling up sustainable intensification in farming

ICRAF partner ranked in top ten of Indonesia’s scientists

Beating Famine Conference seeks a bold vision for Southern Africa

The gender imperative in food security

Sustainable intensification will not keep us within the 2-degree goal for 2030

Beating Famine conference tackles food insecurity in Southern Africa

Empowering farmers with knowledge and skills changes lives

Babysteps for Agroforestry in Liming, China

Avoiding hunger gaps with fruit tree portfolios in Kenya

What happens when farmers are involved in research?

Narrowing the gap between statutory and customary rights in Viet Nam’s community forest management

How a scientist furthered his communication skills

Healthy watersheds need everyone’s help, agrees International Fund for Agricultural Development

Free Online Course on Environmental Justice

Viet Nam governments invest in Smart Trees

Why aren’t farmers growing more trees?

Forests: What’s in a Name?

Landscape restoration talks at global innovations forum, GFIA 2015

Evergreen, Nipa and ‘push-pull’ presented at global innovations forum 2015

Can agroforestry help Cambodia become healthier and wealthier?

Turning the clock 360 years back to reveal climate trends in southwest China

Agroforestry decisions involving women result in more tree planting

Empower Women for a Sustainable Africa: 2015 Africa Environment Day/ Wangari Maathai Day

Can Nepal’s food security really be improved through modelling?

Less swidden agriculture in Southeast Asia: effects on livelihoods and ecosystems

CGIAR leads communication-for-research uptake (ResUp) training at Nairobi symposium

Just coping: Farmers’ responses to climate variability in Malawi

CGIAR brings people together to conserve a watershed in Sumatra

Learning how landscapes work for better livelihoods and ecosystems

Indonesia adopts advice on ecosystem services from the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry

Electricity company expands ecosystem services’ scheme to 10 provinces in Indonesia

Oil palm can help to sequester more carbon

A village in Papua sets out to save the world

Papuan local wisdom works with scientific knowledge to reduce greenhouse gases

A Biofuel Debate in the New York Times

Papua is ready but the world isn’t

EU ambassador visits ParCiMon project sites in Papua

Catch the climate-change moment

Videos and photos used as research tools in Indonesia

Rubber villages respond to price slump

Institutional benchmarks for achieving climate-smart landscapes

Less bare land and more trees and crops in Northwest Viet Nam

A scientist learns to communicate differently

Stronger, resilient islands in the Philippines

Collaboration key to Dyera return to peat

Indonesia holds fifth national agroforestry seminar

Lima: no LAAMA, no GAMA as INDCs replace NAMA

Partnering with the private sector in the Philippines

Viet Nam set to further bolster community forest management

US President Obama plants a Bo-tree in India

Rabbits and giant snails among rubber trees: Agroforestry rekindles rubber farming in Nigeria

“Shallow” private-sector engagement a major concern for integrated landscape initiatives

Farmers and researchers disagree on ‘deliberately’

Training on improved cook-stove construction for rural women in India

Characterizing baobab, the nutritious African ‘Tree of Life’

Climate-smart agriculture needs knowledge, cooperation and a healthy dose of trust

This crop is not an orphan anymore: it now has a home

How many trees for a chocolate fix?

Approaching climate-smart agriculture from a perspective of systems

Peru launches its Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) plan for agriculture

At ICRAF, the African Plant Breeding Academy graduates elite scientists

A new alliance to spread climate smart agriculture among millions of smallholder farmers in Africa

Review highlights problems in the supply of quality tree seeds and seedlings

From farm to landscape: Approaches for multilevel landscape management for climate change mitigation

Mitigation and adaptation go hand in hand

New book arms people with knowledge on landscapes in a changing climate

Peruvian Environment Ministry and the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Sign a Memorandum of Understanding for Inter-Institutional Cooperation

Climate smart method to support sustainable charcoal production in sub-Saharan Africa

The simplicity of light is revolutionising the measurement of soil health

Strengthen the ‘five capitals’ to adapt to climate change

Why climate change researchers are so excited about landscapes

Landscape approach: bridging the climate agenda with the Sustainable Development Goals

The landscape approach for meeting the climate challenge: Examples from Africa

Tree ring analysis helps IPCC determine global temperature increases

ICRAF joins Clarins’ Seeds of Beauty project in China

Prunus africana conservation in the Aberdare highlands: A DW video

Anticipated economic gains key driver of forest transitions in Yunnan, China

The reasons why the richest benefit from community-based forest management

Making climate services accessible and relevant to farmers and pastoralists in Tanzania

REDD+: From Euphoria to Reality

Tree cover transitions and food security in Southeast Asia

Pure soil the best medium to germinate Jabon seeds in

Vice-president of Chiang Mai University calls for integrated research in the Greater Mekong Sub-region

Meeting discusses formation of International Union for Agroforestry

Landscape governance: beyond natural boundaries to embrace complexities

B+WISER prioritizes research in the Philippines

Agricultural development set to benefit from a diet of CaSAVA

Improved cooking stove projects: Principles for successful project design

A landscape (approach) portrait of Africa

‘Diversity matters,’ and other secrets of successful landscape restoration

Korea to support global forest restoration

The Re-Greening of the Sahel: Natural Cyclicity or Human-Induced Change?

Will recognising links between biodiversity and human health lead to greater focus on the benefits of trees?

Taking the pulse on biodiversity and environmental health: decision support tools, metrics and indicators

Sharing evidence and experience on Climate-Smart Agriculture to inform policy

How do you climate-proof the Philippines?

Integrating gender and social perspectives in climate research and programme development

How to make sure we have enough to eat

Technology can help provide more food but basics must be met

The forest-water interaction: complex but vital to billions

We’re [still] willing to pay to protect our resources

Thai farmers are wealthier and healthier thanks to their agroforests

Using local ecological knowledge to assess smallholders’ vulnerability

Low genetic diversity hampers restoration efforts

The value of trees for food and nutrition

Breathing life into degraded landscapes with trees: Restoration in Korea, South Africa and Ethiopia

Targeting REDD+ programs in Indonesia: what influences landowner engagement?

From ‘energy poverty’ towards sustainable tree-based bioenergy

Why agroforestry can add so much more to landscape restoration efforts

Urgency at IUFRO congress, largest gathering of forest researchers ever

Sustainability is possible with biofuels

From ‘energy poverty’ towards sustainable tree-based bioenergy

Could bamboo be the bioenergy of the future?

Local government and ecosystem rewards’ schemes in Thailand

The climate-smart revolution begins

Thirty percent forest or 70% agroforest: which will make an Indonesian watershed healthy?

Required: Smallholder farmer transition through links with private sector

Do trees on agricultural landscapes buffer the impacts of climate change?

With climate change, nothing is better than a tree, ICRAF director tells UN REDD+ meeting

Creating safe operating spaces for global food systems through climate-smart agriculture

World leaders take note: there is a plan to address climate change in African landscapes

Seeing and hearing farmers through photos and videos

Why do some trees produce flowers before leaves unfold?

Trees help farmers adapt to climate change

Growing a high value carbon landscape: BIODEV in Burkina Faso

World Agroforestry Centre and Embrapa sign cooperation agreement

Co-investment and sociopolitical alternatives for ecosystem services

The CGIAR Development Dialogues 2014 and Living Data competition

Positive action on gender supports sustainable development

Bringing business savvy to agroforestry

Not everyone benefits from community forest management

Which agroforest for which farm under changing climates?

Native trees in African drylands serve as water harvesters

What needs fixing – our broken food systems, our attitudes to food, or both?

If you don’t pay attention to gender you will fail

Can one GAP reconcile two other gaps?

Sustainable land management depends heavily on a farmer’s overall income

Website for value chain knowledge launched

Sustainable land management depends heavily on a farmer’s overall income

Soil is more than dirt

Chiang Mai University and World Agroforestry increase joint activities

Moving from food security to nutritional security

Reducing emissions from Jambi province, Indonesia, through ‘nested’ plans

Learning from and for agroforestry in the Andes

Trees in war and peace (Swedish agroforestry, part 2)

The Philippines prepares for Smart Tree-Invest

Smallholders’ trees grow green markets

Wild fruit tree shows promise for reclaiming drought and salt affected environments and improving food security

The hunt for traditional Swedish agroforestry

Complementary feeding as part of better nutrition for upland communities

Farmers trained in jelutong agroforestry for peatland

Understand first; implement second

Uncertainties of scale affect REDD+ schemes

Rapid Land Tenure Assessment adopted by the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry

Fields, forks and breast milk

Celebrating conservation agriculture with trees

The Alternative Charcoal Tool

Nursery certification key obstacle to family-run nurseries in northern Vietnam

‘Don’t throw money at farmers’, and other lessons in sustainable multi-functional agriculture

Legumes: a unified solution for food, fodder, and soil fertility in Africa

How to reduce, and adapt to, climate change at the same time

Rubber agroforestry in the Niger Delta – hope for youth

Peat’s lagging knowledge chain

Is planting trees for carbon worth it?

Peat’s lagging knowledge chain

Low yields, high emissions and writings on walls: Time for a major shift in cocoa management in Southern Cameroon?

Switzerland, ASEAN and social forestry: a labour of love

Migrants, land and deforestation in Indonesia

Female farmers might increase greenhouse gases

Improving the African Yam Bean – neglected crop

Facing the challenges of the Greater Mekong Sub-region

The almost-forgotten Philippine peatlands and their global role

The right policies for African agriculture

Managing Landscapes in Africa: From ‘Evil Forests’ to a Half-Urban, Half-Rural People

Urbanization Poses Risks to Integrated Landscapes in Kenya

Bioenergy Forum: Explore renewable energy from trees

Estimating the value of depleting the Earth’s natural capital

Why reducing deforestation is not like the usual kind of Russian dolls

Drylands forests and agroforestry systems

Wooden it be good if we had more forests!

Transforming cocoa with seedlings and services for farmers

Conservation Agriculture With Trees: Now available, a comprehensive guide for extension workers

REDD ready or not?

The business of landscapes

A profile of Aster Gebrekirstos, scientist at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and researcher with the USAID-sponsored Africa RISING project.

ASEAN needs an agroforestry policy

No action without awareness: REDD+, social forestry and green growth

Better reporting of greenhouse gas emissions means better mitigation of climate change

Co-investing in landscapes with Smart Tree-Invest

Traditional roles not so traditional after all

New evidence proves diverse forests control erosion

At the heart of carbon is my forest

Adopters? Rejectors? Or Key Partners?: Cameroon’s Rural Resource Centres offer a farmer-centred approach to extension work

Grow your own pesticidal plants

How to approach a landscape

Viet Nam celebrates agroforestry but there is more to do

What makes farmers adopt agroforestry?

Changing perceptions of agroforestry: Quotes from WCA2014

Exploring agroforestry in the water-energy-food nexus

How research can improve people’s lives: An interview with Mary Njenga

How much do rural communities really benefit from trees?

Indonesian agroforestry organizations form partnership with World Agroforestry

In Memoriam Rev. Delbert Arthur Rice

Smallholders produce most of Indonesia’s teak

Networking to spread climate technologies

I have to create a green economy?

The invisible rights of indigenous people in Indonesia have suddenly appeared

Farewell shifting cultivation, hello monoculture

Can agroforestry lead to better diets: let’s ask the consumer?

Accessibility might benefit livelihoods but not necessarily forests

Can agroforestry and livestock-keeping support each other to build climate change resilience?

Can trees soften the blow of a natural disaster?

Evidence mounts for oil palm under agroforestry in Brazil

Using agroforestry to restore ecological balance, land health

Sharing knowledge to better manage our natural resources

What really happened with jatropha in Kenya

Partnerships for Fairtrade coffee supply: What works?

Forests disappear, trees reappear. So deforestation isn’t an issue?

What do farmers really know about climate change?

Trees, women and men: surprises and new questions

Morocco’s tree of life in decline

Computer models show agroforestry can repair watersheds

Rainbow water: new findings set to start policy dialogue

More vulnerable than most? Farmers know that trees can help

ASAP: Agroforestry Shelterbelts for an Adapting Philippines

A sweet waterway to food and fuel security

Dark clouds ahead but we can shelter beneath the trees

Save Our Planet – it is the only one which has trees.

Grow a green economy with your agroforest

Five tips for producing more food, saving the planet and making more money

Mapping, for the people, by the people

Farmers need support to diversify in fight against climate change

Study challenges gender assumptions in tree planting

Kill the tree to save it?

International Women’s Day 2014: What we can do now

International Women’s Day 2014 FOREST HEROINE: Catharine Watson

Realising durian’s potential in Indonesia

Realising durian’s potential in Indonesia

Kenya’s southwest Mau and Vietnam’s highland regions set to become models in sustainable landscape management

Innovations for organized and profitable produce markets: The Lake Kivu Pilot Learning Site

Land change in Sri Lanka as famous tea loses out to vegetables

Market interventions double farmers’ returns in the Lake Kivu Pilot Site

The Small-scale Farmer “is” the Private Sector

Does more water mean better sorghum yields in the Sahelian Parklands? Not always, say scientists

Science Matters

Trees on farms help smallholders in sub-Saharan Africa reduce climate-related risks

Gender in agroforestry in India’s drylands

Analyzing trade-offs in agriculture requires a combined approach

WCA2014 will be carbon neutral

Urban agroforestry can address nutrition in growing cities

Household assets, higher-value markets, and the tackling of rural poverty: Study reveals important link

Do home gardens qualify for carbon financing?

Using eucalyptus trees to drain wastewater, improve the environment

Using improved cook-stoves to fight climate change

Researchers to discuss jatropha and other biofuel trees at World Congress on Agroforestry

Agroforestry can be a long-term solution to closing Africa’s food gap

Commercializing nutritious foods from native Kenyan trees

Gazing into the future of agroforestry: which models work?

Complexity lives at the tree–people–planet interface

Mechanization perhaps not all it’s cracked up to be

Can agroforestry provide a win-win for climate mitigation and adaptation in Africa?

Ecosystem services must be preserved in Sahelian parklands

Africa faces food security and climate change challenges, is agroforestry the solution?

Unity is strength in the marketing of smallholder farm produce

Domesticating fruit trees for nutrition and livelihood

Agroforestry set to grow even more in Viet Nam

International English version of the Indonesian National Strategy for Agroforestry Research 2012–2030

New agroforestry horizons in Myanmar: the challenge of slash and burn

Indonesia celebrates the 20th anniversary of the World Agroforestry Centre Southeast Asia program

Research history of the World Agroforestry Centre Southeast Asia program 1993–2013

Negotiation-support toolkit for learning landscapes

Ignorance kills

Land tenure and agroforestry at the heart of a sustainable future Earth

Replacing industrial fertilizers with legume trees: beans for thought?

ICRAF and partners launch first African Plant Breeding Academy

Culling the tree that feeds you: An optimal phased replanting approach for cocoa trees in Ghana

A how to guide for propagating improved tree planting material

For smallholders, an abundance of opportunities in climate-smart farming

Rural development projects can generate social capital

One small change of words – a giant leap in effectiveness!

Plantation or private teak? Policy is key…

Agroforestry front and centre at UN nutrition seminar

Resilient landscapes need the involvement of local people

Benefits from tree planting in Malawi

Which sector has a huge potential to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions?

Sahelian parklands needs improved tree, crop and livestock integration for future productivity

Katingan’s Rattan Gardens: To keep or not to keep?

Coal consumption and warming to 2ºC: “high-efficiency” coal is not a “low carbon” technology

Coal consumption and warming to 2ºC: “high-efficiency” coal is not a “low carbon” technology

Lesser known coffee variety almost as profitable as oil palm in Sumatra’s peatlands

Seeds of hope emerge across the world’s drylands

Agroforests are reducing carbon losses from Jambi, Indonesia

Climate smart agriculture must be farmer-smart, gender-smart and equity-smart too

Traditional tree species holds promise for farmers in Indonesia’s peatlands

Agriculture can mitigate and adapt to climate change

What could stop the conversion of the last orangutan habitat peat-swamps to oil palm in Tripa, Indonesia?

Boosting productivity and income from smallholding teak systems in Indonesia

Land-use planning for low-emissions development strategies

ICRAF scientist joins global soil body’s advisory team

The Tipping Points: highlighting severe global environmental impacts

24 Hours of Reality: The Cost of Carbon

Quotes from TEDx Nairobi: The City Rebooted

Human activity threatens gene pool of key timber species in China

Two easy entry points for soil fertility management in East Africa’s highlands

CCAFS Gender Training and Strategizing Workshop: a collaborative effort to link gender issues and climate change

Can China step back from the brink of ecological disaster?

How to improve our understanding of climate-smart agriculture

Indonesia set to reduce emissions from landscapes not just forests

New Agroforestry Species Switchboard means easier, faster access to quality information

Indigenous trees could suffer from changes to coffee production in Kenya

From the frying pan into the fire: natural forests lost as tree cover increases in China

What motivates volunteer farmer trainers?

“Renewed effort at agroforestry modeling” needed in a changing climate

Thousands of years of rice and fish without artificial inputs

Thousands of years of rice and fish without artificial inputs

Payments for environmental services in Viet Nam might not be sustainable without improved monitoring and evaluation

Payments for environmental services in Viet Nam might not be sustainable without improved monitoring and evaluation

Visioning our future: can scenarios help in policy development under climate change?

Visioning our future: can scenarios help in policy development under climate change?

China’s giant hunger is changing the world

Soil carbon stocks decrease following forest-to-rubber plantation conversion

Land tenure and agroforestry at the heart of a sustainable future Earth

Unpacking the evidence on firewood and charcoal in Africa

Africa’s ecosystem-services schemes face many challenges

Fruits of labor: Limited access to quality fruit tree seedlings could hamper rehabilitation efforts in Aceh

New EU forest strategy recognizes agroforestry

What do we really mean by land degradation?

Diversity key to improving food and nutritional security through agroforestry

Wake up now to make agriculture sustainable

United for soil health

Yurdi Yasmi asks why rights are important for forest-dependent people

Agroforestry can meet charcoal demand in Kenya

Safeguarding people’s rights through land-use planning

Data, data everywhere but…

New global accounting standards will ‘make ecosystems count’

Ecosystem Services Partnership welcomes businesses to next conference

Not as straightforward as it seems: the role of agroforestry in tree conservation

Creating different land-use scenarios to reduce conflict

Ecological priorities remain hidden in the management of Indonesia’s forested landscapes

Certifying the services of forests’ ecosystems

Decoding ancient wisdom for effective management of natural resources

Certifying the services of forests’ ecosystems

A NOEL approach to rehabilitating Aceh’s smallholder agroforestry systems

Our debt to nature: USD 20 trillion a year and rising

Bali’s World Heritage rice-field system on brink of collapse

Human wellbeing must be included in national accounts

Ecosystems need strong legal frameworks

Enhancing smallholder tree systems and livelihoods in Lampung: what has fifteen years of research taught us?

‘Co-investment’ schemes for ecosystem services are more likely to succeed

Indonesia aims to complete regulations on payments for ecosystem services by end 2013

Local knowledge as a starting point for climate-resilient agriculture in Ethiopia

Indonesia launches national strategy for agroforestry research

Gender Equality or Environmental Conservation? A tough call for Sumatra

Biodegradable seedling bags could grow stronger trees, but can they replace polythene?

New X-ray technology to reveal the makeup of Africa soils

Scaling Up Sustainable Land Management

New tree books mean Michelle Gauthier’s dream lives on

The little-understood indigenous African fruit trees

Where will trees grow in a new climate?

Conservation Agriculture with Trees (CAWT) policy in Kenya: An incentive or disincentive for smallholders?

Soil carbon is lost when forests become rubber plantations. Does it matter?

World’s largest reforestation scheme fails to protect natural forests and threatens more

Use a computer to choose the best way to manage your land

How to grow an agroforestry policy at home

Could farmers help pay Europe’s climate change mitigation bill?

Could farmers help pay Europe’s climate change mitigation bill?

Community mapping for responsible palm oil

Regrowing Aceh after the conflict and tsunami

Activism by app: grow a tree with your mobile

The role of China’s forests in mitigating climate change

Mostly bad news about slowing the planet’s warming

Do politicians read scientists?

New technologies for cocoa farming pull youth, secure chocolate

More people, more trees: the pathway to food and nutritional security in Africa

When will the chestnuts bloom in the Summer Palace in Beijing?

Invest in climate-resilient futures says ICRAF DG Tony Simons

Global GDP may be increasing but human welfare isn’t

Stronger rights, protected forests, better livelihoods

Scientists identify another cause of the fires in Indonesia

Trees to increase resilience in East African drylands

Why Grimm’s Fairy Tale No. 103 is essential reading for the CGIAR’s development outcomes

Reducing emissions from all land uses in Tanjung Jabung Barat

Trees and food security in Africa; what’s the link?

Agroforestry project wins Land for Life Award

Global Symposium discusses the integration of REDD+ into Green Economy

How to protect diverse animals and plants from changes in climate

Adaptation and mitigation: two lenses for sustainable agriculture

Biofuels venture connects cities to farms in Mozambique

Climate justice conference report published

Rising demand for herbal medicine can drive medicinal tree cultivation

Ecosystem-based adaptation: a buffer for pastoralists?

There’s more in a rubber-tree agroforest than just rubber

Five priority underutilised trees identified for domestication in West Java

Differentiated strategies key to uptake of collective action interventions in Cameroon?

Agroforests protect watersheds

Re-thinking journal impact factors as a measure of scientists’ performance

Farmers aren’t getting the message

Agroforestry traditions of Indonesia can help confront food shortages

Agricultural reality show helps farmers talk to scientists

The yield gap and post-production issues in agroforestry

Can organic and resource-conserving agriculture improve livelihoods?

Agroforestry centre-stage at FAO forests for food security and nutrition event

Home gardens and fruit trees crucial for nutrition

Sound farming advice for a ‘new normal’ climate

On the threshold of a national forest transition: can trees on farm help the Philippines?

Height isn’t everything: Quality tree seedlings for Cameroon

Dublin meetings discuss direct and indirect potentials of agroforestry

Grafted cocoa wows farmers and visitors at Petit Bondoukou

Traditional medicine unsustainable in Kenya

Litchi: A new yet old fruit tree for Kenya

What price organic cocoa in Ghana?

Oil palm plantations in Indonesia: are they sustainable?

The trouble with agriculture and how to fix it

Are women better custodians of biodiversity?

Natural resources challenges to future food security

From species extinction to family planning: Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in the West African Sahel

The cost of an orangutan’s forest

The cost of an orangutan’s forest

Recommendations for national carbon-emissions monitoring systems

Recommendations for national carbon-emissions monitoring systems

TIF, TOF and TOTOF trees or universal tree rights?

TIF, TOF and TOTOF trees or universal tree rights?

Sulawesi smallholders: To sell what grows or grow what sells?

Charcoal briquetting in Nairobi relieves poverty, environmental stresses

The difficulties of choosing research sites in Sulawesi

Long-awaited study warns against jatropha hype

The difficulties of choosing research sites in Sulawesi

Long-awaited study warns against jatropha hype

A public market information system for buyer-seller groups in Cameroon’s NTFP sector?

Extension services the key to better adoption of soil erosion control technologies by smallholders?

The soil-carbon transition curve as near-death experience

Creating complex agroforestry systems in Northwest Viet Nam

Hunting wildlife changes tropical forests

Training for low-emissions development in Indonesia

Training in vegetative propagation high on Sulawesi farmers’ wishlist

Indonesia prepares to expand schemes that pay for environmental services

Which agroforest will improve an H’mong farmer’s life?

Join us in Bali to share about ecosystem services

New ideas about producing fuel and food on farms

Neo-classical economics doesn’t have all the answers for conserving watersheds

Is rainfall really changing? Farmers’ perceptions, meteorological data and the problem of saying ‘climate change’ in Chichewa and Setswana

Just where exactly are the threatened species?

Does policy in Cameroon discourage smallholder tree planting?

We’re willing to pay to protect our water

UK Environment Minister Richard Benyon visits ICRAF Hq

Profitability and land-use systems in South and Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia

Helping Indonesia reduce its greenhouse gas emissions

The world’s thinking has changed about forests and climate change. Or has it?

South Asia’s forests help fight climate change but more needs to be done

New climate change agency in Indonesia to go beyond carbon

‘Farming the associations’ with trees for food security, climate resilience

Bad news for international bio-energy regulators

Who is importing African timber to China and what might this mean for sustainability?

Bioenergy gathers pace

Rivers without borders – transforming the way we manage shared watersheds

Nitrogen-fixation in Niger, Tanzanian migrations and a missing Botswanian breed

Is that hot shower deforestation-free?

Mitigation and adaptation: a perfect marriage made on farms

Brazil’s pride in the Amazon keeps deforestation at bay

The drivers and levers of deforestation

Shame and pride can be drivers of reforestation

Going soft on sustainability

Photo by World Agroforestry Centre scientist in semifinals of Adaptation Fund contest

Bat diversity in a healthy landscape

Sugar, women, wine, money, men and orangutan

Aviation biofuel production must involve smallholders

Getting trees into farmers’ fields

A seed, an orchard invisible…but what kind of orchard?

Does erosion represent landscape-level loss or gain of carbon stocks?

Evidence-based-policy-based-evidence on forests, trees and agroforestry

Certifying eco-friendly rubber to protect biodiversity

Grassroots organizations: How effective are they in disseminating agroforestry innovations?

Climate change will recalibrate agriculture

Oil palm is good financial news for smallholders

Making oil palm ‘carbon efficient’

Good, bad and toxic fuel woods: Trees on farms make the difference

Can nature’s services be bought and sold?

Volunteer farmer trainers: go or no go?

Can nature’s services be bought and sold?

Plant perennials to save Africa’s soil

Growing agroforests with incentive schemes

The economics of oil palm in Indonesia

The carbon footprint of oil palm in Indonesia

Teak just got a bit tougher

To share or spare land? A 25-year debate

How do you like your rubber?

More rubber, more money, less of everything else?

Livelihoods and biodiversity

World Agroforestry Centre and Convention on Biological Diversity enter sustainable land use pact

Farm area ‘the size of Switzerland’ needed to meet India’s biofuel shortage

How to make a successful environmental services scheme

Behind better environmental services is a dream of a better world

Charcoal a dark issue for Somalia

How policies and laws influence agrobiodiversity

Making agriculture ‘climate smart’

Do’s and Don’ts of measuring research impact

Money really can grow on trees, says Leakey at agroforestry book launch

Financing a green transformation in developing countries

Farmers know trees help with climate change; Do nations?

Financing sustainable land use at scale: The smart Inari approach

Leakey book says ‘trees of life’ could nourish the planet, build wealth

Expert panellists discuss how to unlock the wealth of Africa

Study finds African grass could become trees by 2100 AD

Secrets of the Central African bush trade

Can REDD make Africa greener?

The wise use of trees

Towards a Green Economy

Miss Universe and World Agroforestry team up for soil health

Only out of the box practices can ‘green’ Africa

Dryland agroforestry lessons from Israeli deserts

City Farming is Good for a Green Economy

How to involve communities in ecosystem conservation

Closing the gap between man and nature – The Satoyama Initiative

Healthy soils are crucial for food security: Prof Tony Simons, Director General, ICRAF

Time running out to vote for agroforestry at RIO+20

Evergreen Agriculture for the Great Green Wall of Africa

Centre scientists to profit from new databank

African agriculture ‘Dirt Poor’ but will inorganic fertilizer make it rich?

Moving from tilling to conservation

Experts harvest carbon and energy ideas for land regeneration

Farmers managing underground forests to re-vegetate their lands

The baffling simplicity of FMNR

Farmers in sub-Saharan Africa Regenerate Land to Beat Famine

Land regeneration for food security

Be a profit to your own land

Agroforestry reducing farmer vulnerability to climate change in Kenya

Promoting integration and dialogue within the context of global change

The role of social protection in climate change adaptation

Warm and fuzzy works: communicating climate change to achieve richer public engagement

Upcoming Beating Famine Conference set to encourage Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration

CGIAR launches landmark project to radically transform ecosystem management by 2022

The trouble with defining “Green Economy”

Positive signs as rural women embrace adaptive agroforestry

Smart landscapes to feature in Rio+20

Putting multifunctional landscapes into climate negotiations

What next for agriculture after Durban?

Down the memory lane with ICRAF’s first employee

Rewarding communities for environmental services

Harnessing the mitigation potential of soil carbon

Evergreen agriculture can build resilience and increase food security in the face of climate change

Side event at COP17: how climate-smart agriculture must benefit the poor

We’re not waiting for you to stop talking: going climate smart in Ethiopia and Tokelau

Making climate-smart agriculture work for the poor

Asking the right questions about the future of agriculture

Achieving food security in the face of climate change – summary report out

Agroforestry and biodiversity conservation go hand-in-hand

A brown revolution for Africa

Action must move ahead of knowledge to buffer agriculture from climate change

Fuzzy definitions hamper efforts to stop deforestation

How to explain carbon finance using FPIC

New UN Drylands Ambassador to champion agroforestry

Worldwatch Institute promotes indigenous fruit trees

$40 million project aims to revitalize Africa’s orphaned crops

Selling trees to conservation agriculture enthusiasts

$40 million project aims to revitalize Africa’s orphaned crops

Money for grass

One-stop web page on CGIAR research for the Horn of Africa

Heard anyone say ‘climate-smart agriculture’ lately and understood what they meant?

Heard anyone say ‘climate-smart agriculture’ lately and understood what they meant?

Wangari Maathai – may you rest in peace in the shade of celestial forests

Input to achieve output: our moral obligation?

African food trees highlighted in new booklets

Could agroforestry have prevented the famine?

Feeding a hungry world with trees

No Brasil, agricultores peruanos trocam experiências e aprendem práticas agroflorestais

Sách mới: Sự đa dạng các thực hành Nông Lâm kết hợp ở Việt Nam (Bản tiếng Việt)

Agrofloresta e agroecologia podem ajudar a alcançar objetivos comuns na América Latina

En América Latina, la agroforestería y la agroecología pueden ayudar a alcanzar objetivos comunes

“No podemos darles un mismo modelo agroforestal a todos los productores porque no va a funcionar”

Agroforestería con palma aceitera y almacenamiento de carbono: una alternativa a las plantaciones de monocultivo en Brasil

¿Qué hay detrás de la deforestación y cambio de uso de la tierra en la Amazonía peruana?

Los árboles facilitan la agricultura en armonía con la naturaleza

Dendê agroflorestal e armazenamento de carbono: uma alternativa às monoculturas no Brasil

Definición oficial de agroforestería para mejores políticas

Impulsar el uso de árboles en la agricultura familiar como estrategia de conservación de la diversidad biológica

INICIATIVA SMART OFICIALIZA GRUPO IMPULSOR PARA EL DESARROLLO AGROFORESTAL EN SAN MARTÍN

Des chercheurs de l’Afrique de l’Ouest renforcent leurs capacités sur des méthodes pour mieux comprendre la production agricole

Vài lời chia sẻ trước chuyến đi của Elisabeth Simelton, chúc chị lên đường may mắn

Ngày Quốc tế Phụ nữ và Trẻ em gái trong Khoa học: phỏng vấn Nguyễn Mai Phương

Hệ thống tưới tiêu thích ứng với khí hậu ở Tây Nguyên

Tổng kết 10 năm dự án AFLi (2011–2021) và khởi động Mạng lưới Nông lâm Kết hợp

CIFOR-ICRAF se torna membro do conselho da Aliança pela Restauração na Amazônia

Agroforestería ‘a la medida’ en San Martín

SMART: más información para mejores decisiones en Perú

Un análisis de los factores de éxito de los incentivos de conservación en el Perú genera lecciones aprendidas para la promoción de Contratos de Cesiones en Uso para Sistemas Agroforestales

Aportes de Perú al nuevo marco global para la biodiversidad post-2020

Autoridades forestales comprometidas para reducir brechas en la implementación de CUSAF

Árboles en las parcelas agrícolas por la biodiversidad en Perú

Pourquoi la diversification des arbres en agroforesterie est-elle importante ?

Cultivando árboles maderables en la Amazonia peruana

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