IUAF is pleased to have opened discussions focused on the Czech Republic’s commitments to agroforestry and how Czechia might contribute and participate in IUAF operations and the 6th World Congress on Agroforestry. By IUAF…
Dr. Emeline Assede, University of Pakarou, Benin, IUAF Board Trustee and Award Winner of the “Best Young Scientist of Benin” I recently had the honour to participate in a field study with several…
Today we meet with IUAF trustee Dr. Eduardo Somarriba, a plant ecologist who has been working in agroforestry for 43 years, specializing in multi-strata systems with cocoa and coffee. He has focused on designing the optimal shade…
Tropenbos International shares its latest publication, “Agroforestry at Work”. By Patrick Worms, President of the International Union for Agroforestry As President of the International Union of Agroforestry (IUAF), I am honoured to introduce…
As Côte d’Ivoire’s farmers are finding out, that means trouble. By Patrick Worms, President of the International Union for Agroforestry West Africa’s coast used to be thickly forested, with rainforests hugging beaches and…
By Patrick Worms, President of the International Union for Agroforestry. Worldwide, farmers face great challenges due to increased competition in their sector. And that applies around the world, in the industrialised temperate north…
Combat climate change and hunger with trees – agroforestry is a key approach to help achieve the global goals Link to the original article by Agroforestry Network here. Photo shows Benta Muga in…
The article “Positive but variable effects of crop diversification on biodiversity and ecosystem services”, published in Global Change Biology on 18 July 2021, assembles for the first time a substantial body of empirical…
The magic pizza pie of climate change solutions has several big fat slices marked “trees”. People have noticed, which is why we have trillion tree campaigns, billion tree campaigns and hundreds more. Yet…
Since we modern humans started spreading across the planet, we have killed off the megafauna of every continent but Africa (we evolved there, giving the local wildlife time to become wary of us)…
With all those well-meaning efforts to plant trees out there, alarm is justifiably being raised that sometimes, those trees will do more harm than good. That’s why it’s helpful to start any tree…
LISTEN HERE Listen to a talk about “The history and future of agroforestry” with our board member, treasurer of IUAF, Patrick Worms for Regenerative Skills. In farming, the industry has convinced farmers, that…