The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) is a CGIAR Consortium Research Centre with headquarters in Kenya. The Centre’s vision is rural transformation throughout the tropics as smallholder households increase their use of trees in agricultural landscapes to improve their food security, nutrition security, income and health, as well as shelter, social cohesion, energy resources and environmental sustainability.
ICRAF generates science-based knowledge about the diverse benefits of agroforestry, or trees in farming systems and landscapes, and disseminates this knowledge to develop policy options and promote policies and practices that improve livelihoods and benefit the environment.
Trees on farms and non-forested landscapes are key to restoring degraded lands back to productivity. With action research in countries throughout sub-Saharan Africa, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) aims to promote the inclusion of useful trees on farms to improve food, water and energy security, as well as build people’s resilience to climate-related shocks. Farmers can manage natural regeneration (FMNR) or plant and nurture useful trees on their land.
ICRAF has projects in Eastern, Southern, Western and Sahelian African countries (including Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Tanzania, Zambia, and Somalia), all of them incorporating the landscape restoration objectives elaborated by AFR100 initiative.
Resources/Media:
Sustainable Integrated Land Management Solutions
IGAD-Biodiversity Management Program in the Horn of Africa
World Agroforestry Centre blog
Agroforestry Species switchboard
