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.
This manual gathers information on the ecology and silviculture of Aleurites moluccana (L.) Willd., with a focus on Indonesia. It also includes growth and yield data from published sources and collected from smallholders’ farms in the research sites in South Kalimantan province. The manual is one of five manuals to guide smallholder tree planting of five selected tree species in Indonesia. The other four species are: Acacia mangium Willd.; Anthocephalus cadamba Miq.; Paraserianthes falcataria (L.) Nielsen; and Swietenia macrophylla King.
The paper tries to provide answers to questions on the status of farm/family forestry in Africa
in terms of opportunities and challenges, their contribution to economic development and
In The Gambia?s Kombo district land-grabbing for settlement is the norm. However, one community has stood against this, asserting their traditional rights to their forest, and carrying out extensive conservation work to preserve it for future generations.
Emmanuel Mutamba of the Green Living Movement describes how agroforestry is improving food security and farm income in central Zambia.
A CTA study visit to agroforestry projects in Malawi and Zambia...
The manual reflects the results of a 3-year participatory learning process that comprised many meetings, workshops, village case studies, a baseline survey of 20 poor villages, two monitoring trials in another 20 villages, and a full monitoring survey of all 223 villages in Kutai Barat. The principal purpose of this manual is to provide technical guidelines and background information to poverty assessors at district, subdistrict and village level in Kutai Barat. Therefore, the manual is structured in modules according to the tasks of the assessors.
Investment in policy oriented research is rising despite uncertainties about the degree to which it has actually contributed to benefits for the poor and the environment thus far. To address these uncertainties, this Impact Assessment Paper explores a case example of the contribution of policy oriented research to improved environmental benefits. The subject of the assessment is political economy research that revealed how perverse incentives led to the clearance of large areas of natural forests for feeding massive Indonesian pulp mills.
