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EverGreen Maize for Africa project report
This project report is based on the EverGreen Maize for Africa (EMA)project - an initiative between the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and DuPont Pioneer to promote the use of fertilizer trees as part of integrated soil ...
FtF Climate-Smart Agroforestry Technologies Scaling-up in Mali
Scaling-up Climate-Smart Agroforestry Technologies for improved market access, food and nutritional security in Mali (SmAT-Scaling) aims at strengthening the value chain of tree products, improving the nutritional status ...
Scaling-up climate-Smart Agroforestry Technologies: Key achievement under Feed The Future Initiative in Mali
The SmAT-Scaling Project is funded by USAID operating under the guidance of the USAID/Mali’s
Feed the Future (FtF) strategy and implemented by a consortium headed by the World Agroforestry
Centre (ICRAF) in partnership ...
Food banks and technology parks
The indigenous fruit and vegetable trees of Mali in the Drylands of the West African Sahel grow in varied but well adapted environments. The highly diverse indigenous trees are year-round sources of food and nutrition ...
Experimental Designs for Alley Cropping to Estimate Shrub x Grass Interaction
Alley cropping, an agroforestry system, comprises rows of perennial shrubs or trees bordering
the alleys of grasses/crops. An appropriately chosen alley cropping provides improvement in
feeds for small ruminants, food ...
ICRAF-DS Annual Report 2015
In 2015 ICRAF undertook drylands research in two transects of the West African Sahel (WAS) and the Ethiopian action site in East and Southern Africa (ESA). The research was supported through 0.7 million USD of W1/2 funding ...
Trees and Livelihoods in Karamoja, Uganda
This report presents results of a rapid desk review of academic and grey literature on the
evidence relating to trees and livelihoods in Karamoja a region in north eastern Uganda. The
review identified the range of problems ...
Effect of best-bet sustainable land management technologies of minimum till, agroforestry shrubs and box ridges on yield of maize (SC403) in Nsipe, Malawi
Food insecurity is a serious challenge to most of the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In this region, production levels of small-scale farmers, who contribute a significant proportion of the maize produced, has been far much ...
Farmer Perceptions on Optimization of Tree Cover in Agroforestry Landscapes in the Central Rift-Valley of Ethiopia
This study revealed that farmers in the region want to have more trees both on their farm lands and homesteads than what they have currently. However, this study also clearly showed differences in the two sexes in terms ...
Identify NRM options for sustainable management community silvopasture systems for enhanced biomass productivity, biodiversity & livestock production
This is a face to face workshop with farmers to promote silvopastoral practices, in the meeting the community generated rules that they should follow that are linked with the government funds for community development. ...