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Harnessing data for decision making and sustainable development
The Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) has established 12 Thematic Groups comprising leading scientists, engineers, academics and practitioners from business and civil society to promote solutions to key challenges of sustainable development. The Thematic Groups are solution oriented rather than research oriented and aim to identify practical solutions to the challenges of sustainable development. Dr. […] Continue Reading
Food forests could help end hunger for nomads in arid East Africa
The name itself sounds idyllic: pastoralism. That’s the broad term used to describe nomadic communities who raise livestock across open areas of land as water supplies and seasons change. Cattle raised in such a manner is the main source of livelihood for people in northern Kenya; it accounts for about 10 percent of Kenya’s gross […] Continue Reading
Even children can do FMNR
Wezzie Banda (World Vision Malawi) speaks to Dennis Garrity, United Nations (UN) Drylands Ambassador and Senior Fellow at the World Agroforestry Centre on the first day of the Beating Famine conference. TALKING ABOUT LAND CONSERVATION AND NATURAL TREE REGENERATION, HOW DO YOU THINK CHILDREN CAN BENEFIT AND BE A PART OF THIS INITIATIVE? That is […] Continue Reading
Australian acacias with the answers for a hungry world
Australian Acacias – Bringing food to the hungryAustralian acacias have evolved to grow in a wide range of environments, including the driest of dry areas. Due to the lack of large herbivores in Australia as there is in Africa, many of these species have not developed techniques such as seed toxicity, bitterness or elaborate thorns […] Continue Reading
EverGreen Agriculture: Rethinking Modern Farming
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! The Evergreen Agriculture Partnership was launched in 2009 to build the capacity of smallholder farmers […] Continue Reading
Drylands forests and agroforestry systems
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 […] Continue Reading