World Agroforestry Centre
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| ICRAF | |
|---|---|
| Founded: | 1978 |
| Scope: | Global |
| Policy area: | Forest and forestry |
| Type of institution: | Non-governmental organisation |
| Field of work: | Research |
| Language: | English |
| URL: | ICRAF website |
| Format: | html |
| Access: | Free |
| Publisher: | ICRAF |
| Country(ies): | Kenya |
| Date: | 2/2/2012 |
The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) is part of the alliance of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) centres dedicated to generate and apply the best available knowledge to stimulate agricultural growth, raise farmers’ incomes, and protect the environment. Its aims are also to improve food security, nutrition, income, health, shelter, energy resources and environmental sustainability in smallholder households.
| Objective | To maximize the productivity of agroforestry systems improving the income of poor households by facilitating their access to markets, to work in agricultural landscapes that experience the greatest environmental stress, to balance improved productivity with the sustainable management of natural resources, and to manage trees in agricultural landscapes to ensure the health water systems |
| Thematic priority(ies) | Improvement of the livelihoods of poor smallholders and sustainability and productivity of agricultural landscapes and agroforestry systems |
| Functions | To generate science-based knowledge about the diverse roles that trees play in agricultural landscapes, and use its research to advance policies and practices that benefit the poor and the environment |
| Linkage(s) to policy processes, instruments and institutions | CATIE,CIFOR,CBD,UNDP,UNEP,ITTO,CIRAD, World Bank |
| Keywords | Agroforestry, poor households, farm-grown trees, environmental services, non-timber forest products |
| FOREST EUROPE criteria | FOREST EUROPE indicators | ToSIA indicators |
| Productive functions, protective functions | Services | Forest resources, water use, protective forests-infrastructures and managed natural resources |
