Community based forestry has the potential to contribute much more to achieving sustainable development and poverty reduction than is the case today. This paper describes and analyzes these potentials and demonstrates their feasibility with real world cases of community forest businesses and innovative policies and business partnerships.

Henry Phombeya of Malawi?s Land Resource Centre outlines the benefits of various popular agroforestry species, including those offering soil fertility improvement.

Virginia Wangui Njunge, a mixed crop/livestock farmer shows Eric Kadenge how she is growing fruit and other beneficial trees on her farm near Nairobi.

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Emmanuel Mutamba of the Green Living Movement describes how agroforestry is improving food security and farm income in central Zambia.