Integrated ecosystem and landscape approaches to conservation are moving from con-cept to practice in many parts of the developing world. Agroforestry – the deliberate managementof trees on farms and in agricultural landscapes – is emerging as one of the most promisingapproaches to enhance and stabilize rural livelihoods, while reducing pressure on protected areas,enhancing habitat for some wild species, and increasing connectivity of landscape components. Forthe potential of agroforestry to be effectively harnessed, however, the policy and institutionalenvironment needs to provide farmers with clear incentives to plant and protect trees that con-tribute to both ecosystem function and rural livelihoods. This paper analyzes the policy terrainaffecting agroforestry around protected areas in five very different contexts across Sub-SaharanAfrica, finding both expected and unexpected similarities. Across the sites in Uganda, Cameroonand Mali, the study revealed a rough policy terrain for agroforestry – systemic market constraints,contradictions between development approaches and conservation objectives, and inconsistenciesin institutional and regulatory frameworks. Making the conservation landscape approach moreeffective will require that both agriculturalists and conservation planners have much greaterappreciation for the conservation and livelihood potential of agroforestry.
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