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The Education working group is led by Dr. Yaye Aissetou of the African Network for Agriculture, Agroforestry and Natural Resources Education (ANAFE). This network represents 135 educational institutions and is working with them to develop an improved approach and curriculum in agroforestry, including more recent content on EverGreen Agriculture. As young people are the future custodians of the land, there is an urgent need to provide them with the skills and knowledge to be able to manage it sustainably into the future. Staff and students from universities, schools and technical colleges are contributing to the EverGreen Agriculture Partnership through research and building the skills and knowledge of future farmers, extensionists, trainers and agribusiness sector professionals to be able to support EverGreen Agriculture in the future.

Africa’s agriculture needs young blood

By May Muthuri in News on October 5, 2015

Modernising Africa’s agriculture sector to attract young people will help tackle youth unemployment and food insecurity, a report has suggested. The findings were outlined in the 2015 African Agriculture Status Report. Despite the dominance of agriculture in many economies, outdated land-tenure systems and poor access to finance deter new entrants to farming, it said. The […] Continue Reading

CIFOR Releases Global Landscapes Forum Reports on the Successes and Outcomes

By admin in News on June 11, 2014

9 June 2014: The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has released the report of the first Global Landscapes Forum. The report focuses on four themes: investing in sustainable landscapes, landscape policy and governance, synergies between climate change mitigation and adaptation, and landscapes for food security and nutrition. Read more: http://bit.ly/1qtaKTF 9 June 2014: The […] Continue Reading

EverGreen Agriculture network launched

By admin in News on April 19, 2013

By Godfrey Chisusu for Transformations Bi-weekly Vol 6 Issue 7The "Building a Large EverGreen Agriculture Network in Southern Africa" (BLEANSA) project was officially launched in Salima, Malawi on 5 April 2013 in a ceremony graced by the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Hon. Jermoth Ulemu Chilapondwa, MP. Continue Reading

VIEWPOINT: Land and Forest Should Ride A Tandem

By admin in News on April 12, 2013

There is widespread agreement that sustainable forest management on a global scale is not achievable without halting land degradation. But this view is not shared by the rationale and focus of the tools and mechanisms designed during the past decade to promote and incentivize sustainable forest management. Continue Reading

Climate-Smart Agriculture: Global Science Conference

By admin in News on March 22, 2013

At the 2011 Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) in Wageningen, participants took stock of global science and best practices concerning climate smart agriculture worldwide. Participants agreed on a broad agenda for action for science and policy to strengthen food security, adaptation and mitigation (Wageningen Declaration). Continue Reading

Sahel Region Learning to Reap the Benefits of Shade

By admin in News on March 5, 2013

In Africa’s Sahel region, agroforestry techniques using traditional plantings known as “fertiliser trees” to increase soil fertility, as well as harvesting and grazing regulations, are offering new solutions to both food and human security.Such approaches were nearly lost in recent decades following devastating droughts in the Sahel. Now they are making a belated but welcome comeback. According to a 2012 U.S. Geological Survey, “regeneration agroforestry” in the Sahel stands at over 5 million hectares of agricultural fields newly covered by trees – and growing. Continue Reading

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