CIFOR–ICRAF publishes over 750 publications every year on agroforestry, forests and climate change, landscape restoration, rights, forest policy and much more – in multiple languages.

CIFOR–ICRAF addresses local challenges and opportunities while providing solutions to global problems for forests, landscapes, people and the planet.

We deliver actionable evidence and solutions to transform how land is used and how food is produced: conserving and restoring ecosystems, responding to the global climate, malnutrition, biodiversity and desertification crises. In short, improving people’s lives.

Farmer-led organizations for natural resource management in the tropics

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Reversing global land degradation is about better and simpler technologies, national policies, and much more. But ultimately it is about rural people and their institutions. The prospect for reversing tropical land degradation in the next century will be greatly enhanced by the evolution of real farmer-led community organizations that take charge and transform the way research and extension in land management are done. Broad-based evidence for this is beginning to emerge. This is part of a historical process toward people taking back greater control of their futures through decentralization, democracy, and local leadership

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