We don’t know how to care for our land; all we do is wait until the harvest time comes so we can pick the fruits and sell them but lately there’s not much to sell’, said one of the farmers working with researchers from the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in Buol, Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. His comments neatly summed up the challenges facing farmers, and researchers, in the increasingly dry district.In 2014, the Climate-Smart, Tree-Based, Co-Investment in Adaptation and Mitigation in Asia (Smart Tree-Invest) project, which is funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry under the aegis of ICRAF, started work in Buol to try and address the issues faced by farmers.
Publication year
2016
Authors
Language
English
Keywords
trees, farmer participation, extension services, farmer field schools
Geographic
Indonesia
