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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 ...
Baseline characterization of the local stakeholders to promote the uptake of sustainable intensification of cereal-based farming system innovations in the Sudano-Sahelian zone of Mali
This characterization study is carried out under the innovation platform work package and aims to: (1) identify and characterize the existing stakeholders involved in agricultural development, (2) assess the level of ...
Enclosures in West Pokot, Kenya - Transforming land, livestock and livelihoods in drylands
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populations and associated pressure on water and land. Based on a combination of social and natural science
methods, we studied a 30-year transformation process from pastoralism to a livestock-based agro-pastoral system
in ...
Restoration of Degraded Lands in Mali: a review on lessons learnt and opportunities for scaling
The rapid growing population and the need of economic development is leading to a number of environmental issues, notably forest and degradation of land, resource depletion (water, mineral, forest), environmental degradation, ...
Crop production under different rainfall and management conditions in agroforestry parkland systems in Burkina Faso: observations and simulation with WaNuLCAS model
Traditional agroforestry parkland systems
in Burkina Faso are under threat due to human
pressure and climate variability and change, requiring
a better understanding for planning of adaptation.
Field experiments were ...
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 ...
Building Biocarbon and Rural Development in West Africa (BIODEV)
WP1.2 “agroforestry and farm interventions” is one of the seven workpages of the BIODEV project being implemented in Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone since August 2012. For the year July 2014– June 2015, the activities have ...
Critical Review of Dryland Restoration in Tanzania: Elements of Success and Failure & Technologies Employed
Arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas cover 61 % of Tanzania (United Republic of Tanzania, 1999) and, over the past decades, several restoration projects have worked toward reversing degradation in these areas (Kikula, ...
A Yin-Yang approach to education policy regarding health and the environment: early-careerists’ image of the future and priority programmes
Since the inception of sustainable development (SD), there has been a somewhat ignored contradiction between paradigms that are ecosystem-based and paradigms that are human-based or purely economic. We suggest that this ...
Comparison of tree seedlings management for better survival and growth performance in the DRYDEV program intervention areas of Ethiopia
Planned comparison protocol of tree seedlings management for better survival and growth performance in the DRYDEV program intervention areas of Ethiopia