<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>27</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">G Michon</style></author></authors><secondary-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">asb@cgiar.org</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">michon@engref.fr</style></author></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">International Center for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) Activities Related To Non-Wood Forests Products Research and Development.</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">agroforestry</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ICRAF</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1996</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.fao.org/docrep/x5336e/x5336e15.htm</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">FAO</style></publisher><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">335-337</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The International Center for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) was established in 1977 as a research council. In 1991, it became a research center supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. ICRAF's goal is to help mitigate tropical deforestation, land depletion and rural poverty, through improved agroforestry systems.
ICRAF, which undertakes activities in 20 countries in Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia, has the following objectives:
    · to conduct strategic and applied research, aimed at developing appropriate agroforestry technologies for more sustainable and productive land use
    · to strengthen national capacities to conduct agroforestry research
    · to encourage inter-institutional collaboration
    · to promote training, education, documentation and communication in the field of agroforestry.
ICRAF has had a long-standing interest in tree products, some of which are of forest origin. However, from 1977 to 1992, the bulk of ICRAF's activities were concentrated in Africa, especially in the dry lands of Eastern Africa where ICRAF is based. Previously ICRAF focused primarily on agricultural areas. Its main efforts were to improve existing agricultural systems and to solve some of the problems encountered by local farmers through selected agroforestry technologies. ICRAF considered trees primarily for purposes of boundary or contourplanting, as shade trees in pasture lands, as living hedges and as nitrogen-fixing enhancers to food crops. </style></abstract></record></records></xml>