Il y a au moins d’après les experts une quarantaine de techniques employées en agroforesterie mais certaines sont plus populaires que d’autres. Un spécialiste togolais les passe en revue.
The study was based on initial research during 2000 and 2002 in the districts of Kapuas, Central Kalimantan, supplemented with interviews with policy makers in Jakarta during July-August 2001. This paper considers how the decentralization process involves legal and institutional changes that encompass a wide arrary of actors, institutions and levels of government. It raises issues of coordination, negotiation and conflict across multiple levels and jurisdictions.
Governments around the world increasingly seek to manage their forests with the collaboration of the people living nearby. Ministries of forestry or their equivalents usually do this by offering local people access to selected forest products or forest land, income from forest resources, or opportunities for communicating with government forestry officials. In return, the agency obliges local people to cooperate in managing the forests around them by protecting existing forest or by planting trees.
Ann Degrande of ICRAF in Cameroon tells Martha Chindong how families can benefit from cultivating wild fruit tree species near their homes.
Au Bénin, l’anacardier est un arbre qui a une grande valeur économique, Sociale et environnementale. Pour le préserver et l’améliorer, la recherche agronomique préconise ces deux techniques agroforestières spécifiques.
Chris Kakunta visits Harrison Chongwe, an innovative farmer who is using Gliricidia sepium instead of chemical fertilizer, with excellent results.
Robin Mlolo, a farmer from Malawi?s lakeshore area, describes the many benefits to be gained from Faidherbia albida, the African winterthorn.
Au Mali, l’ICRAF, le Centre International de Recherches en agroforesterie fait la promotion d’espèces d’arbres améliorés par greffage sur la variété locale et obtient des rendements records.
Une recette gagnante qui profite autant aux arbres, qui donnent de meilleurs fruits, qu’aux cultures qui prospèrent.
Pour faire face à l’épuisement des sols et à leur surexploitation, des ONGs camerounaises préconise la technique de la jachère améliorée.
