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Technology can help provide more food but basics must be met
As the effort to improve food-supply productivity continues, technology and innovation are imperatives but scientists warn that smallholders’ basic needs must first be met By Enggar Paramita Food...
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Farmers and researchers disagree on ‘deliberately’
Researchers have looked at differences between how farmers and research institutions, such as the World Agroforestry Centre, characterise agroforestry systems. They found a gap, which could be...
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Training on improved cook-stove construction for rural women in India
Approximately half of those living in developing countries rely on traditional biomass for cooking. According to IEA, the International Energy Agency, around 815 million people in India use...
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“Shallow” private-sector engagement a major concern for integrated landscape...
Integrated landscape initiatives in Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa are investing heavily in institutional planning and coordination, but they have had mixed results engaging different...
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Rabbits and giant snails among rubber trees: Agroforestry rekindles rubber...
Nigerian rubber farmers are finding that diversifying their land with food crops, food trees and ‘small livestock’ like rabbits, bees and snails makes sense on many levels. The mixed farm brings in...
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A scientist learns to communicate differently
Thailand program coordinator for the World Agroforestry Centre, Prasit Wangpakapattanawong, describes learning different ways to communicate at a Humidtropics workshop The single biggest problem in...
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Videos and photos used as research tools in Indonesia
Farmers and village leaders have been interviewed on video and their landscapes photographed to collect baseline data for a new research project By Nichola Sarvangga Valero Mitakda Sixteen farmers...
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Papua is ready but the world isn’t
Home to a vast area of natural forests considered critical to slowing climate change, Papua province in Indonesia is ready to develop a ‘green economy’ but the world isn’t ready to invest Committed...
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A village in Papua sets out to save the world
A small, remote village in Papua province, Indonesia, wants to share the knowledge it has gained to help slow climate change, beginning with the ambassador of the European Union The village of...
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Papuan local wisdom works with scientific knowledge to reduce greenhouse gases
Jayawijaya regency in central Papua province, Indonesia, is combing local ecological wisdom with scientific technical support to devise low-emission development through land-use plans The Baliem...
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Indonesia adopts advice on ecosystem services from the CGIAR Research Program...
Indonesia’s newly formed Ministry of Environment and Forestry has adopted recommendations from studies conducted by the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry and the RUPES project...
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CGIAR brings people together to conserve a watershed in Sumatra
The Way Besai watershed, which was experiencing conflict, is now harmonious thanks to an initiative by a CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry team from the World Agroforestry...
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Learning how landscapes work for better livelihoods and ecosystems
The CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry in collaboration with the World Agroforestry Centre and the RUPES project has been maintaining ‘learning landscapes’ for over a decade to...
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CGIAR leads communication-for-research uptake (ResUp) training at Nairobi...
How do you explain your research work, share your opinion and give recommendations to an important audience so that you can make a difference and get others, including policymakers, to take up your...
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Can Nepal’s food security really be improved through modelling?
Scientists have developed a computer model for Nepal that shows income from different agricultural scenarios or market policies. But modelling is still not properly recognised By Rachmat Mulia and...
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Healthy watersheds need everyone’s help, agrees International Fund for...
Everyone with an interest in a watershed has to be involved for its protection to be effective. Deceptively simple, this finding from the Philippines is now being globally promoted by the...
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How a scientist furthered his communication skills
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe Gustave Flaubert ‘There are many ways of telling stories to many different audiences or readers’, said Robert Finlayson, regional...
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ICRAF partner ranked in top ten of Indonesia’s scientists
The best scientists in the three most populous countries of the world—China, India and the USA—don’t necessarily work on agroforestry but in the fourth-most populous country—Indonesia—ICRAF is proud...
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Farmers in Viet Nam committed to developing agroforestry systems
Despite challenges, farmers in the northwest of Viet Nam are persisting with agroforestry trials to claim the long-term benefits Spending time taking care of their young agroforestry systems is one...
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The winning combination for scaling up sustainable intensification in farming
Around the world, farmers are conservative by nature, and with very good reason. A rich farmer who makes a serious mistake risks losing his farm to the bank. A smallholder risks much worse:
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