WELCOME to the
home page of the World Agroforestry Centre Southern Africa
Programme, your link to agroforestry research and development
in Southern Africa.
While many of
you reading this message know us as "ICRAF",
we are excited to announce that we have adopted
a new brand name – World Agroforestry Centre.
We are very proud of ICRAF's rich history of accomplishment,
but we are also aware that our acronym communicates
little about our organization to those who do
not already know our work. As we look to the future,
we need to foster a more immediate recognition
of our focus on agroforestry, ultimately allowing
us to reach more people, more effectively. Hence
this change to our new brand name, World Agroforestry
Centre.
Soil
Fertility OVER the years World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
Southern Africa Programme has been involved in identifying
and domesticating tree species (now popularly known as
‘fertiliser trees’) for various soil fertility
replenishment practices. The research has resulted in
domestication and use of the above tree species in the
following ways: Improved
fallows, Mixed
cropping, Relay
cropping, Biomass
transfer… [ more
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Domestication,
Processing and Marketing of Indigenious Fruits and Products
THE WORK on domesticating indigenous
fruit trees started with ethnobotanical surveys to establish
the uses of Indigenous Fruit Trees (IFTs) and the problems
faced by the farners in domesticating them …[
more
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Fodder
ICRAF-SA has been conducting research and development
work with a view to developing agroforestry management
principles for improved fodder supply. The Programme’s
goal is to increase availability and use of a diverse
range of fodder tree species to smallholder livestock…
[ more
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RESEARCH
on woodlots began in Tabora, Tanzania, in 1993. Rotational
woodlots offer substantial benefits to farmers in terms
of income generation and to society in terms of forest
area conserved…[ more
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Land
and Biodiversity Management
OUR RESEARCH work in this area focuses on carbon sequestration,
mitigation against climate change, providing alternatives
to slash and burn, watershed management and sustainable
land-use…[ more
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Live
Fences
WE HAVE been involved in identifying and testing promising
indigenous and exotic live fence species across a wide
range of biophysical conditions and making promising
species available to farmers for increased farm productivity
and cash income…[ more
]
Land
and Biodiversity Management
Live
Fences 
