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What induced farmers to protect and manage on-farm tree natural regeneration in Nigerien Dryland?
During the second half of the 20th century the Sahel experienced one of the most striking shifts in climate known globally since instrumental records began to be kept-from anomalously abundant rains in the 1950's and 1960's ...
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 ...
Training on Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration
This formation is part of research and scaling-out activities of the CCAFS regarding the Regeneration Naturally Assisted. A diagnostic made during the campaign, which took place between 2014 and 2015, has highlighted tthe ...
Assessment of beneficiaries and benefits from ecosystem services of tree-based farming systems in the semi-arid Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia
Optimization of tree cover is frequently mentioned in the context of agroforestry research and advocacy. While there have been several, mostly modeling, attempts to study the optimization of agroforestry systems, there ...
EverGreen Maize for Africa Project Fact Sheet
EMA is part of wider EverGreen Agriculture (EGA) practices being implemented in Zambia to increase farmers’ opportunities to improve and sustain maize yields using locally available resources.
Assessment of forest cover change and its environmental imacts using multi-temporal and multi-spectral satellite images
Ethiopia has a large number of species of flora and fauna in general and forest resources in particular with a significant rate of endemism. Ethiopian forest cover once was 40 per cent of the country’s land area. Reduction ...
NRM and institutional options for sustainable management of silvipasture systems on community and private lands for enhanced eco-system services
A key component of this project is the capacity development of all concerned stakeholders. In particular agro-pastoral communities with emphasis on woman. Research activity is developed with community involvement to insure ...
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 ...
Provenance variation in seed- and seedling-related traits in survival, growth and dry matter partitioning of Sclerocarya birrea subsp. caffra, a potential agroforestry species, in response to water stress
Many wild plant food resources are eaten across Africa in addition to the more commonly known agricultural food (Mojeremane and Tshweenyane, 2004). The significance that edible wild indigenous plants make to the diets of ...
Agroforestry demo plots harvest report
During the month of May, 2015, Agroforestry Research Team undertook the activity of
harvest in all the districts in Eastern Province where EMA demonstration plots are. The total
number of demos from where maize was harvested ...