The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR and World Agroforestry (ICRAF) joined forces in 2019, leveraging a combined 65 years’ experience in research on the role of forests and trees in solving critical global challenges.
A new series of stories jointly produced by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and World Agroforestry (ICRAF) highlight ‘engagement landscapes’ and ‘transformational partnership platforms’. They aim to shed light on CIFOR-ICRAF’s work in a range of locations around the world.
Developing resilience is an approach intended to capture the complexity of landscapes, address conflicting land uses and different layers of governance, while working with various groups, individual farmers and people in value chains.
Engagement landscapes and transformational partnership platforms are expansive, long-lasting, people-led, nature-positive, action-oriented, science-informed, multi-partner undertakings that are concentrated in a defined geographical location to repair damaged ecosystems, improve livelihoods and enhance nutrition.
The series will delve into some of the ways CIFOR-ICRAF aims to deliver solutions following the release of a new 10-year strategy, by taking a unique approach to evidence-based research, technologies, advisory services and partnerships. Through transformative science, CIFOR-ICRAF addresses the complex ways in which people and ecological systems affect each other.
In this series, we highlight the East African Drylands engagement landscape, focusing on the diversity of restoration work, the health of soils, monitoring progress and socio-economic impact.
East Africa includes Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mozambique, Réunion, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Seychelles, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.