Forest Tenure

Technical information

Emmanuel Mutamba of the Green Living Movement describes how agroforestry is improving food security and farm income in central Zambia.

Il y a au moins d’après les experts une quarantaine de techniques employées en agroforesterie mais certaines sont plus populaires que d’autres. Un spécialiste togolais les passe en revue.

The study was based on initial research during 2000 and 2002 in the districts of Kapuas, Central Kalimantan, supplemented with interviews with policy makers in Jakarta during July-August 2001. This paper considers how the decentralization process involves legal and institutional changes that encompass a wide arrary of actors, institutions and levels of government.

Governments around the world increasingly seek to manage their forests with the collaboration of the people living nearby. Ministries of forestry or their equivalents usually do this by offering local people access to selected forest products or forest land, income from forest resources, or opportunities for communicating with government forestry officials.

Ann Degrande of ICRAF in Cameroon tells Martha Chindong how families can benefit from cultivating wild fruit tree species near their homes.

Au Bénin, l’anacardier est un arbre qui a une grande valeur économique, Sociale et environnementale. Pour le préserver et l’améliorer, la recherche agronomique préconise ces deux techniques agroforestières spécifiques.

Chris Kakunta visits Harrison Chongwe, an innovative farmer who is using Gliricidia sepium instead of chemical fertilizer, with excellent results.

Robin Mlolo, a farmer from Malawi?s lakeshore area, describes the many benefits to be gained from Faidherbia albida, the African winterthorn.

Fiche Technique

Au Mali, l’ICRAF, le Centre International de Recherches en agroforesterie fait la promotion d’espèces d’arbres améliorés par greffage sur la variété locale et obtient des rendements records.