Drylands are home to almost one in three people in the world and support half of the world’s livestock. But when we think of drylands, Chile is not a country that immediately comes to mind. However in the ‘Mediterranean’ semi-arid region of Central Chile...

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Chocolate aficionados may have cause to worry, as some farmers in Sulawesi, the largest cocoa bean-producing island in Indonesia, are thinking of abandoning cocoa farming to grow other commodities. Indonesia is the third-largest producer of cocoa in the world, behind Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana....

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There’s more to gender than meets the eye, according to scientists at the World Congress on Agroforestry in New Delhi, India. It’s easy to miss the forest because you’re looking at the trees. To test this, close your eyes and imagine you’re looking at...

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PKR Nair, one of the world’s most respected scientists in the field of agroforestry or trees on farms, has charged his scientific peers with not producing the best science. Speaking at the World Congress on Agroforestry in New Delhi, India, Nair claimed that the...

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To understand the term “motivational crowding” in Tanzania’s agroforestry, one needs to go all the way to Israel and into a day care center… An experiment by Uri Gneezy and Aldo Rustichini tried to understand: How can parents be motivated to pick up their...

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Farmers can generate a future with sustainable wood fuel energy simply by stimulating timber trees to produce coppices, the World Congress on Agroforestry has been told. Christian Dupraz of l’Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Paris, France, told the ongoing Congress in New...

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In discussions at the World Congress on Agroforestry about agroforestry and nature you could begin to believe that the ecosystem services provided by forests and agroforests are the same. They aren’t. Trees outside forests will never be able to replicate the ecosystem service functions...

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Farmers can expand their agroforestry business if they have access to practical science-based knowledge. It enables them to design their own homegrown agroforestry models determining when, where, how and what type of trees to plant on their farms, as opposed to making decisions based on...

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Some scientists and businesses think they can help us bypass a fiery doom by developing new products that do less harm to the planet and poor people. Let’s hope they’re right this time. Scientists and businesses have thought they’d got it right before. Like...

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Every day, our social media team works hard to capture the sessions and discussions at the World Congress on agroforestry, through our social media channels. A dozen blogposts go online through the day (and night), and a small army of reporters capture the discussions...

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