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Agroforestry: Farmers produce more with less

Posted Thu, 09/20/2012 - 09:40 by EKahurani

Agustine Mbugua is reaping the benefits of conservation agriculture in his single acre piece of land in the Ngata Division of Nakuru County, 170km west of Nairobi. “Not only have I stopped using fertiliser on my farm because the manure from the crop cover provides enough nutrients to the crops, but the labour costs have gone down.

Landscape approach to future forest and tree management

Posted Mon, 08/27/2012 - 18:29 by EKahurani

This presentation by WorldAgrofrestry Director General, Prof Tony Simons, explains what is a landscape approach and why it is needed for future forest and tree resources management.

Guide to carbon market access for farmers in India

Posted Mon, 07/23/2012 - 16:22 by EKahurani

How can smallholder farmers participate and benefit from the growing carbon market? A new report by the WorldAgrofrestry Center (ICRAF) shows that through a SMART-CDM approach, farmers can engage in specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and tangible practices to qualify access to carbon markets.

The World Agroforestry Centre at Rio+ 20

Posted Fri, 06/15/2012 - 20:07 by EKahurani

The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) supports Rio+20’s focus on sustainable development and hopes the conference will establish a sound development basis for the rest of the 21st Century by adopting as a guide, strategies agreed upon at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), agreements from World Summit on adopting Sustainable Development (WSSD) an

Evergreen agriculture can boost Phillipines reforestation program

Posted Mon, 05/07/2012 - 12:14 by EKahurani

In an article published by Business World, Jose Rene C.

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