A blog post by Paul Stapleton, Head of Communication at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF).
Agroforestry and sustainable forest management and restoration promise hope for world’s threatened drylands.
“We treat dryland trees as if they were inferior to rainforest trees,” claimed Lars Laestadius of the World Resources Institute, at a packed event taking place on the sidelines of UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s Committee on Forestry 2014. “It is as if dryland forest is not a real forest.”
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Agroforestry, and sustainable forest management and restoration, promise hope for world’s threatened drylands.
“We treat dryland trees as if they were inferior to rainforest trees,” claimed Lars Laestadius of the World Resources Institute, at a packed event taking place on the sidelines of UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s Committee on Forestry 2014. “It is as if dryland forest is not a real forest.”
– See more at: http://blog.worldagroforestry.org/index.php/2014/06/27/drylands-forests-and-agroforestry-systems/#sthash.HOscbwTb.dpuf
Agroforestry, and sustainable forest management and restoration, promise hope for world’s threatened drylands.
“We treat dryland trees as if they were inferior to rainforest trees,” claimed Lars Laestadius of the World Resources Institute, at a packed event taking place on the sidelines of UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s Committee on Forestry 2014. “It is as if dryland forest is not a real forest.”
– See more at: http://blog.worldagroforestry.org/index.php/2014/06/27/drylands-forests-and-agroforestry-systems/#sthash.HOscbwTb.dpuf
Agroforestry, and sustainable forest management and restoration, promise hope for world’s threatened drylands.
“We treat dryland trees as if they were inferior to rainforest trees,” claimed Lars Laestadius of the World Resources Institute, at a packed event taking place on the sidelines of UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s Committee on Forestry 2014. “It is as if dryland forest is not a real forest.”
– See more at: http://blog.worldagroforestry.org/index.php/2014/06/27/drylands-forests-and-agroforestry-systems/#sthash.HOscbwTb.dpuf
Our Chair, Dennis Garrity, had a marvelous interview with Spore Magazine on EverGreen Agriculture, where he detailed how it differs from the common definition of Agroforestry, the benefits of EverGreen Agriculture systems to livelihoods, farms and the broader community and so much more!
