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Climate-smart agriculture should be livelihood-smart too
Encouraging climate-smart agriculture can lead to climate change adaptation practices in a partnership where the farmer’s needs are addressed.
“Climate-smart agriculture has the potential to increase sustainable productivity, increase the resilience of…
Policy reform to stop discrimination against farm trees could help poor farmers out of poverty
Seoul, Korea, 25 August 2010. Almost half the agricultural land in the world, about a billion hectares, has more than 10 percent tree cover, but there is still huge potential to increase the number of trees on farmland and improve their productivity…
North Korea opens its doors to agroforestry
Jianchu Xu, East-Asia Coordinator for the World Agroforestry Centre, which has been providing technical expertise and training for the project since 2008, said agroforestry — in this case the growing of trees on sloping land – is uniquely suited t…