Modern agriculture has deprived local communities in the tropics of their natural life-support system—the forest resource and the traditional knowledge about indigenous species—and this has not been replaced by employment opportunities or social services. This project in the west and northwest regions of Cameroon takes an innovative three-step approach to improving the lives of local people by establishing rural resource centres (RRCs) to: (i) Rehabilitate degraded land and promote food security through the use of nitrogen-fixing trees to restore crop yields and then the diversification of the farming system with new crops; (ii) Create income generation opportunities from village tree nurseries and the domestication of indigenous fruits and...
Two projects on alley cropping research and development have been implemented in the Forest zone of ...
This article focuses on timber sourced from the agricultural areas in the shifting cultivation lands...
Community forestry (CF) was introduced in Cameroon in 1994 as a way to reduce poverty and enhance su...
Modern agriculture has deprived local communities in the tropics of their natural life-support syste...
Research on participatory domestication of indigenous trees in West and Central Africa started in 19...
Agroforestry tree domestication emerged as a farmer-driven, market-led process in the early 1990s an...
Agroforestry tree domestication emerged as a farmer-driven, market-led process in the early 1990s an...
The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) has been working in the African Humid Tropics (AHT) since 1987...
Agroforestry tree domestication emerged as a farmer-driven, market-led process in the early 1990’s a...
Cocoa is a tropical crop usually grown after forest clearance in the humid tropics, hence leading to...
South West of Cameroon is usually cultivated with cocoa as cashcrop. The farmers incomes are affecte...
An ethnobotanical investigation was carried out in 12 villages in Manyu and Fako Divisions, South-we...
The International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAAS...
This paper makes a desk review of the role of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) in the rural econom...
[Extract] Initiated more than two decades ago through forest legislations and policy reforms in Came...
Two projects on alley cropping research and development have been implemented in the Forest zone of ...
This article focuses on timber sourced from the agricultural areas in the shifting cultivation lands...
Community forestry (CF) was introduced in Cameroon in 1994 as a way to reduce poverty and enhance su...
Modern agriculture has deprived local communities in the tropics of their natural life-support syste...
Research on participatory domestication of indigenous trees in West and Central Africa started in 19...
Agroforestry tree domestication emerged as a farmer-driven, market-led process in the early 1990s an...
Agroforestry tree domestication emerged as a farmer-driven, market-led process in the early 1990s an...
The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) has been working in the African Humid Tropics (AHT) since 1987...
Agroforestry tree domestication emerged as a farmer-driven, market-led process in the early 1990’s a...
Cocoa is a tropical crop usually grown after forest clearance in the humid tropics, hence leading to...
South West of Cameroon is usually cultivated with cocoa as cashcrop. The farmers incomes are affecte...
An ethnobotanical investigation was carried out in 12 villages in Manyu and Fako Divisions, South-we...
The International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAAS...
This paper makes a desk review of the role of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) in the rural econom...
[Extract] Initiated more than two decades ago through forest legislations and policy reforms in Came...
Two projects on alley cropping research and development have been implemented in the Forest zone of ...
This article focuses on timber sourced from the agricultural areas in the shifting cultivation lands...
Community forestry (CF) was introduced in Cameroon in 1994 as a way to reduce poverty and enhance su...