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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 ...
Restoration of Degraded Lands in West Africa Sahel: Review of experiences in Burkina Faso and Niger
This is a comprehensive literature review of land restoration activities in West Africa Sahel.
Water constraints and the inherent soil poverty are the major factors that limit crop yields and productivity of cropping systems ...
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 ...
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 ...
Scaling-up Climate-Smart Agroforestry Technologies for improved market access, food and nutritional security in Mali (SmAT-Scaling). Annual Report
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 ...
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
The present document consists of a statistic on provenance variation in seedling and seedling-related traits in survival, growth and dry matter partitioning of Sclerocarya birrea subsp. caffra, a potential agroforestry ...
Training workshop on Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) and Agroforestry practices in Sahelian countries
A training workshop on Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) and Agroforestry practices in Sahelian countries was held in Sikasso from 08 to 10 December 2015. About 30 participants coming from 7 institutions, ICRAF-Sahel, Catholic ...
Effects of farmer managed natural regeneration on livelihoods in semi-arid West Africa
This paper used a multivalued treatment framework to assess the effects of farmer managed natural regeneration (FMNR) on selected outcomes among 1080 rural household farmers in the Sahelian and Sudano-Sahelian ecozone of ...
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 ...