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Vol. 1: June-July 2012
Message from the Regional Coordinator By Dr Jeremias Mowo
Dear Readers, it is my pleasure to invite you to our new Eastern Africa
regional e-newsletter known as The Link. This June - July edition is the very
first of our online e-newsletter series, which is designed to share with you
short articles, events, publications and other exciting news. Initially, the
newsletter will be on a bi-monthly basis. However, as the frequency and
number of articles increase, we will strive to produce the newsletter on a
monthly basis Through The Link, we hope to connect the region to our
colleagues, stakeholders, partners and agroforestry practitioners in general
by informing or sharing news, knowledge and skills on most current developments. The e-newsletter is
produced by a team of rejuvenated ICRAF EA staff based at the institutions headquarters in Nairobi,
Kenya.
ICRAF EA has country offices in Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania and Ethiopia. Additionally, it has limited
activities in South Sudan and Burundi. The region has four main project areas of focus which are:
Institutional Strengthening and Landcare, Evergreen Agriculture, Bioenergy and Improved Capacity in
Rainwater Management. We are also in the process of developing our regional strategy for 2012 – 2016
in line with ICRAFs mission, vision and major research themes. The strategy attempts to address the
common challenges of drought, erosion and hunger in order to contribute towards achieving the goals
and aspirations articulated by the various national, regional, and international actors.
The Link News and events from ICRAF - Eastern Africa
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In this issue, we have…
News and information from the countries Kenya:
ICRAF Board of Trustees visit to Kisumu.
Scaling up conservation agriculture in Zambia.
Sound Strategies for Improved Soil Water & Nutrient Retention: Conservation Agriculture with Trees (CAWT) Case Study of Masongaleni, Kibwezi.
Sustainable Land Management: Towards a climate smart agriculture.
Model schools in Machakos to embrace Evergreen Agriculture.
Uganda: MoU between ICRAF Uganda Country Office and World Vision Uganda
Going to Scale: Enhancing the Adaptive Management Capacities of Rural Communities for SLM in the Highlands of eastern Africa’. An AHI-PAAP project
Highlights of feed plan workshops for production team and DFBAs extension workers
Training workshop on Capacity Needs Assessment by Strengthening Rural Institutions project
3rd Lake Victoria Basin Stakeholders Forum
Ethiopia:
Revitalizing Agroforestry Research for Development (R4D) Upcoming events Staff matters
ICRAF East Africa Regional Offices at the Centres Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya
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News from the countries…
Kenya ICRAF Board of Trustees Visit to Kisumu
By Walter Adongo and Sheila Abwanda
The ICRAF Board of Trustees (BOT)
accompanied by the Senior Leadership Team
(SLT) visited the Kisumu Site in Eastern Africa
region on 28th April 2012. The site manager Mr.
Georges Aertssen and ICRAF Kisumu staff who
gave presentations on the activities being
implemented within Western Kenya welcomed
the team. The team then proceeded to the field
to see various projects on the ground.
The Kouko Women Group in Lower Nyando
Block, which is implementing a project
supported by grants from the COMART
Foundation - Canada, was the first stop for the
team. The project combines Asset Based
Community Driven Development model (ABCD)
and Value Chain Analysis (VCA) in improving
their livelihoods and environmental resilience
while responding to the effects of climate
change. The team witnessed firsthand the
integration of agroforestry in smallholder farms.
They held discussions with one of the farmers,
David Achiando, whose life is being transformed
from growing Carica Papaya (pawpaw). The
family had earned about $1700 from their 10
pawpaw plants and is now able to pay fees for
their son who is in secondary school.
The second stop was Kaptumo, 70km from
Kisumu town. Here, the East African Dairy
Development (EADD) staff and Kapcheno Dairy
Group members welcomed the group to Mr.
Njoroge’s farm. He is among the few EADD
farmers and a Kapcheno Dairy member who
practices complete zero grazing of six cattle,
keeps chicken, plants fodder, food crops and
agroforestry trees on his farm. Dr. Todd
Rosenstock gave a brief on the activities of
Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture
(MICCA) project in collaboration with EADD. The
project aims at adding value to the dairy
development efforts by building capacity for the
integration of climate-smart practices that
simultaneously increase productivity, income
and ecosystem resilience within the farming
systems of small holder farmers. The chairman
of Kapcheno Dairy Group, Mr. Wilfred Kembio
introduced the group members present and
explained how farmers in the region have
embraced dairy farming while promoting climate
smart agriculture.
Fodder crop with boundary planting of agroforestry trees (Grevillea robusta)
The team then toured Mr. Njoroge’s 4 acre farm.
Todd explained to the guests the protocol of
sampling greenhouse gases (GHGs) that is
carried out in three ecosystems; complete zero
grazing set up, semi zero grazing and non-zero
grazing to monitor GHGs changes that come
with implementation of climate smart agriculture.
A visit to the Kapcheno Dairy Group chilling
Plants, Kaptumo and Ndurio, followed. These
plants have helped small-scale dairy farmers
come together and process milk then sell in
large scale for higher returns.
This very successful and well-appreciated field
day came to an end with a dinner function at
Imperial Hotel in Kisumu that brought together
representatives from Kenya Agricultural
Research Institute, Kenya Forestry Research
Institute and collaborating NGO’s and agencies.
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Scaling up Conservation Agriculture in Zambia
By Maimbo Malesu and Vivian Atakos
Sinoya Phiri's house in Zambia before taking up CAWT
A team constituting Vrije Universiteit University
Professor Will Critchley, World Bank Institute
(WBI) representatives Dr. Mei Xie and Dr.
Gerald Kapp; ICRAF Water Management
Programme Coordinator Malesu Maimbo and
Country Wise Communications - a filming crew
from the UK- engaged in a mission to produce a
seven minutes video on scaling up of
Conservation Agriculture (CA) in Zambia
between 29th May and 1st June 2012. With this
visit, an update on the assessment of water
harvesting in Zambia with a focus on soil and
water conservation or level bund technique was
also done. This was part of the WHaTeR
project’s ongoing assessment on the
performance of water harvesting technologies in
15 selected countries including Zambia.
During this mission, the team noted the use of
Faidherbia albida within CA. “What is evident
now in Zambia is that there are over 150,000
smallholder farmers practicing CA and their
maize yield has increased on average from less
than one tonne to 4 tonnes/ha.
Where Faidherbia albida has been planted,
farmers are only applying 50% of the
recommended fertilizer application rate” says
Malesu Maimbo.
The visits to best performing CA farms revealed
that farmer’s livelihoods have significantly been
transformed due to increased income from sale
of surplus maize. However since rotations are
mandatory in CA, farmers are still finding it
difficult to sell legumes.
The team also noted many outstanding research
questions on Conservation Agriculture With
Trees (CAWT), which need addressing. These
include: the contribution of CAWT to the buildup
of soil carbon; competition for soil water
between Faidherbia albida and crops;
contribution of litter/leaves in Faidherbia albida
to soil fertility improvement and soil carbon;
which components of CA are critical to its
performance; and finally how best scaling up
can be achieved, especially with resource poor
farmers.
Sinoya Phiri's house built with proceeds from his farm after taking up CAWT
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Sound Strategies for Improved Soil Water & Nutrient Retention:
Conservation Agriculture with Trees (CAWT) Case Study of Masongaleni, Kibwezi By Chester Kalinda, Maimbo Malesu, Alex Oduor, Kipruto Cherogony, Peter Gachie, Jonathan Muriuki &
Dennis Garrity
Masongaleni is one of the divisions of Kibwezi District, Kenya, which falls within the arid and semi-arid lands of Kenya. The dominant soils are the Lixisols and Acrisols which are shallow, low in soil fertility and have low water retention. They also have strong surface sealing and crusting properties. The area has bimodal rainfall of long rains (March to June) and short rains (October to December) totaling an average of 500mm annually.
Installation of double ring infiltrometer
In 2009, ICRAF, through Dr. Dennis Garrity, initiated trials on Conservation Agriculture with Trees (CAWT) in Kibwezi with the objective of investigating the ability of fertilizer tree species in improving the fertility and water retention of the soils. Trials were established in 24 farms to study the effect of three fertilizer tree species (Faidherbia albida, Tephrosia candida and Gliricidia sepium) on improving soil fertility and to identify which among these trees will survive the harsh climatic conditions of the area as well as contribute to improving soil fertility and water retention. In January 2012, Mr. Chester Kalinda, a Research Fellow from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology joined ICRAF to determine whether inclusion of trees in Conservation Agriculture is an effective land
management strategy for conserving nutrients and soil water. His other objective was to examine the suitability, through performance, of the three fertilizer tree species for CAWT under the semi-arid conditions. During the auguring, after about 15cm soil depth, the water infiltration process became difficult. On further investigations, it was observed that a hard pan of approximately 5 – 10 cm depth existed in virtually all the farms. This was especially the case in control plots that had been prepared using conventional tillage practices, particularly use of ox-drawn mould board plough. Control plots could hardly hold rainwater. Most of the water ran off to the retention; fanya juu or fanya chini ditches. Gliricidia had very high foliage and rapid regeneration after cutting. Farmers really liked Gliricidia with some of them noting a doubling in yield where this tree was intercropped with green grams. During harvest time, a farmer Edward Musyoki reported a yield of 5 (90kg) bags per acre under Gliricidia. According to the farmer, this is slightly more than double the normal harvest which is often between 1 to 2 bags per acre. When looking at survival rates of the three species, Faidherbia albida recorded the highest (44%) while Tephrosia performed poorly. Except in one farm with about 50%, the rest had less than 1% survival rates.
Yield losses due to years of ploughing and moisture stress
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Sustainable Land Management: Towards a climate smart agricultureBy Maimbo Malesu and Vivian Atakos
A mapping tool for assessing the potential for
water harvesting and other sustainable land
management practices such as agroforestry and
soil and water conservation developed by
ICRAF elicited a lot of interest during a recent
three day workshop by the World Bank Institute
(WBI) and Bunda College in Malawi in late May
2012. The interest was shown during a guest
address delivered by Malesu Maimbo,
Programme Coordinator, Rain Water
Management, Eastern Africa region on Climate
Adaptation Strategy: Water Harvesting and
Conservation Agriculture –experience from the
region and beyond.
The workshop titled “Sustainable Land-Water
Management: Towards a Climate-Smart
Agriculture” is one in a series of training
workshops by the WBI. 36 participants drawn
from training/capacity building institutions,
government departments, NGOs, financial
institutions and journalists in Sub-Saharan Africa
directly involved or working on sustainable land
management with an emphasis on climate smart
agriculture attended the workshop.
During the three day workshop, participants
discussed Conservation Agriculture (CA) in
Africa and cited Zambia as a good example in
the scaling up of CA. A lot however still needed
to be done in Malawi since very little had been
achieved since the official launch of CA in 2004.
The WBI also launched The Climate Change
Knowledge Portal, a central hub of information,
data and reports about climate change around
the world. Through the portal, one can query,
map, compare, chart and summarize key climate
and climate related information. This tool is
useful for development practitioners and policy
makers and is available online:
http://sdwebx.worldbank.org/climateportal/index.
cfm
This is the second workshop where ICRAF has
been asked to give a key lecture in a series of
training workshops conducted by WBI for
participants in Sub-Saharan Africa.
In a separate meeting during the workshop
period, Malesu Maimbo met Dr. Henrie Njoloma,
Chairperson of the Rainwater Harvesting
Association of Malawi. Discussions were held on
the upcoming 15th Southern and Eastern Africa
Rainwater Network (SearNet) meeting
scheduled for November 2012 in Naivasha,
Kenya. Those wishing to register for this
conference can do so via the following link:
http://worldagroforestrycentre.org/projects/searnet/conferen
ce/registration.php
Model schools in Machakos to embrace Evergreen Agriculture
By Vivian Atakos
Five schools in Machakos County are the latest addition to 129 schools in Kenya implementing the
Healthy Learning Programme. An induction workshop organized by the Flemish Association for
Development Cooperation (VVOB), the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and the Ministry of Education
(MoE) took place on the 25th and 26th June in Machakos.
Participants included teachers and parents from the 5 schools as well as education officials from the MoE
headquarters and Machakos district. This workshop aimed at introducing participants to the concept of
Healthy Learning (HL) and guiding them on how to start the programme in their own schools.
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Workshop participants pose for a group photo
The HLP involves the introduction and
strengthening of small school projects like
school gardens/farms with agroforestry
technologies, small livestock production units,
water management, and other school projects to
support learning in health, nutrition, natural
resource management and sustainability in
primary schools and their surrounding
communities.
As part of the Evergreen Agriculture programme
implemented by ICRAF, the new HL schools in
Machakos County will be linked to farmer groups
in their locality so that they can synergize and
work together in tree nursery establishment and
management. Beneficiary schools and farmer
groups are being trained in areas such as tree
nurseries as a business, nursery practices and
nursery profitability. The schools will manage
this initiative as part of the HLP.
VVOB and ICRAF’s collaboration started in 1994
through secondment of young environmental
scientists. In 2002, ICRAF and VVOB embarked
on the “Farmers of the Future” project with a
focus on partnering with schools and education
ministries in various African countries, including
Kenya, to promote environmental and
agricultural education. Healthy Learning was
developed in 2008 based on the lessons learned
from “Farmers of the Future” project
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Uganda
MoU between ICRAF Uganda Country Office and World Vision Uganda By Joy Tukahirwa
Left to right: World Vision staff Enid Kabasinguzi Ocaya and Pamela Ebanyat working with Joy Tukahirwa of ICRAF on the MoU
The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Acting
Country Representative in Uganda, Dr Joy
Tukahirwa, worked with the Disaster Risk
Reduction and Community Resilience Manager
and the Livelihood specialist of World Vision
Uganda (WVU) on the 21st June 2012 to
prepare a draft framework as part of the
preliminary process of signing a Memorandum
of Understanding (MoU) that will see the two
organizations formally working together.
Formalization of the collaboration will result in a
win-win situation for both organizations in their
areas of work. For WVU, this collaboration
targets the promotion of capacity building,
applied research, quality agroforestry
germplasm, policy analysis and advocacy in
agroforestry and generally evergreen
agriculture. ICRAF on the other hand envisages
leveraging on WV success stories of a wider
coverage among vulnerable communities for up-
scaling opportunities with a focus on low cost
and rapid methods of land regeneration as a
response to climate change.
ICRAF Uganda country office has in the recent
past prioritized major engagements with
Government of Uganda towards increasing her
visibility in the country while building strong and
viable strategic partnerships towards promoting
the science and practice of agroforestry. World
Vision is one of the partners fronted by ICRAF
headquarters as a unique partner to collaborate
with in scaling Farmer Managed Natural
Regeneration (FMNR) in vulnerable rangelands
of Uganda.
As a systematic regeneration of trees from living
tree stumps, roots and shoots , FMNR is among
the low-cost and rapid methods of environmental
restoration earmarked by agroforestry
stakeholders during a national FMNR workshop
held in Uganda between 8-10th
May, 2012 in
Kampala to achieve Evergreen Agriculture and
thus food security in Uganda. Consequently,
formalizing an MOU has been considered vital in
consolidating the collaboration among partners.
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Going to Scale: Enhancing the Adaptive Management Capacities of Rural Communities for SLM in the Highlands of eastern Africa’. An AHI-PAAP project
By Joy Tukahirwa
A planning and review workshop was
successfully held on the 22nd of June 2012 in
Kapchorwa, Uganda organized by the National
Agricultural Research Organization (NARO).
The workshop aimed at reviewing the progress
development of outcomes at landscape level
Sustainable Land Management (SLM);
identifying priorities and coming up with action
strategies for going to scale in the remaining
period and sharing and giving feedback on the
devolution process.
Kapchorwa District Local Government Natural Resources
staff contributing to the discussions during the workshop
The workshop drew 45 participants from local
researchers, farmers and policy makers. Local
government leaders from Bukwo, Kween and
Kapchorwa districts in Uganda were present.
Participants strategically discussed joint efforts
towards preparation of approval process for
district ordinance for the three districts targeting
a common Benet landscape. This was an effort
to fast track the formulation of a district
ordinance supported by Benet Bye law process.
The African Highlands Initiative (AHI) programme of ICRAF and the Policy Analysis and Advocacy Programme (PAAP) of the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA), in partnership with Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR) and the National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO) have an on-going four year project funded by IDRC with sites in Ethiopia and Uganda. NARO is the site coordinator for Uganda.
Highlights of feed plan workshops for production team and
DFBAs extension workers By Jane Kugonza
The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in
collaboration with International Livestock
Research Institute (ILRI) conducted a four day
training workshop in June 2012 to build capacity
on feed plan development for the East Africa
Dairy Development (EADD) production team
and farmer associations in the project target
sites. This training was the first in a series of
four that will be conducted in Uganda.
The EADD Project is promoting the development
of dairy hub based feed plans to enhance feed
production and alleviate dry season feed
shortages. This process involves engaging the
DFBAs and feed related stakeholders,
conducting a rapid feed assessment in hubs
using the FEAST tool. Developing work plans
with stakeholders that will guide implementation
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is the next step. The EADD then backstops the
DFBAs to implement the feed plans.
As EADD Phase? 1 draws to an end, emphasis
has been placed on developing capacity of
DFBAs, extension providers and chilling plant
managers amongst other stakeholders to assess
their feed needs and develop feed plans.
The workshop was attended by 68 participants
including dairy farmers, business farmers
association representatives, chilling plant
managers, extension providers, government
veterinary officers, farmer trainers, EADD project
production team, ICRAF dissemination
facilitators and the ILRI team.
Major outcomes from the training included
capacity building for the EADD production team
and extension workers on the use of FEAST tool
in facilitating development of site specific feed
plans. Secondly, there was dissemination and
review of already developed feed assessment
reports to actualize implementation strategies
and thirdly ten DFBA feed plans were
developed to address seasonality of feed
resources and increase milk production.
Training workshop on Capacity Needs Assessment by Strengthening Rural Institutions project
By Rick Kamugisha, Mieke Bourne, Francesca Borgia and Joseph Tanui
The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), with
support from the International Fund for
Agricultural Development (IFAD), organized a
four days Capacity Needs Assessment (CAN)
workshop for grassroots organizations and other
stakeholders in two districts of Uganda namely
Kapchorwa and Masindi from 24th – 29th June
and from 2nd
- 6th July respectively.
The CAN workshop was organized as part of the
‘Enabling rural transformation and grassroots
institutional building for sustainable land
management and increased income and food
security’ project, whose goal is to strengthen
grassroots organizations. The project has three
main objectives which are; to enhance capacity
of variants of grassroots institutions and provide
support to harness broader collective action for
rural service delivery; to improve enterprise
development within the context of conservation,
and community level asset accumulation, and
develop platforms for knowledge sharing and
scaling up. The expected project outputs include
a dynamic model for grassroots institutional
development and analysis.
A total of ten representative grassroots
organisations were selected from each district
based on group maturity, functionality, typology,
age and size, partnership levels, affiliation and
geographical location participated in the
workshop. Each organization was represented
by three members (two officials and one base
member) who participated in a series of
activities.
The organizations are primarily affiliated to two
IFAD projects (VODP and DLSP) and to the
Kapchorwa Landcare Chapter (KADLACC), a
sustainable Landcare platform.
The main objective of the workshops was to
capture the capacities and the needs in terms of
knowledge, information, skills and enabling
environment and to develop implementable work
plans at group level through a number of
participatory techniques. This integrated
development planning focused on role plays,
stakeholder identification and mapping,
dissemination and farmer learning systems,
SWOT analysis, appreciative inquiry (including
visioning and asset identification), identification
of objectives and strategies as well as gaps in
these strategies and finally monitoring and
evaluation.
The outputs generated during the workshop will
serve as a basis to build an effective and tailor-
made capacity development plan to enhance the
local grassroots organizations in the two project
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sites. These workshops followed the pilot
Capacity Needs Assessment workshop that was
conducted in Embu (Kenya) in May 2012.
A team from ICRAF (Nairobi and Uganda) with
support of the local contact persons facilitated
the workshops. This team also met with the site
steering committees to report back to the
community on progress of the project.
Workshops are planned for Bungoma, Kenya
and two sites in Tanzania before the end of
August and a Capacity Needs Assessment
manual will be refined at each workshop and will
be presented as a project output in October.
Kapchorwa group representatives Vision mapping by participants
3rd Lake Victoria Basin Stakeholders Forum
by Joy Tukahirwa
The 3rd Lake Victoria Basin Stakeholder took
place from the 26-29th June 2012 in Entebbe
Uganda. Dr. Joy Tukahirwa the ICRAF Eastern
Africa region Uganda office country
representative participated in the forum which
forms an important component in the promotion
of coordinated efforts towards sustainable
development of the Lake Victoria Basin (LVB), in
line with the Shared Vision and Strategy
Framework for management and development
of the Basin.
Some resolutions from the forum presented an
opportunity for partnership between ICRAF and
Lake Victoria Basin Commission (LVBC). These
included: 1) Promote contribution of the private
sector in supporting green economy through
appropriate laws, policies, strategies and
incentives; 2) Put in place measures to adapt to
climate variability and address various
environmental challenges in the Basin.
The Lake Victoria Basin Stakeholders Forum is
a biannual event organized by the Lake Victoria
Commission (LVC) in collaboration with partners
promoting sustainable development in the Lake
Victoria Basin. The partner categories include
relevant government institutions in the partner
States (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and
Rwanda), development partners, civil society
organization (CSO) networks, private sector
(Chamber of Commerce), faith based
organizations, research institutions and
institutions of higher learning, local government
networks, international and regional
organizations, media and cultural
groups/leaders.
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Stakeholders who participated in the workshop
Ethiopia
Revitalizing Agroforestry Research for Development (R4D)
Kiros hadgu and Jeremias Mowo, August Temu, Angela Ndanu and Vivian Atakos
The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
organized a stakeholder’s workshop on
revitalizing agroforestry research for
development (R4D) from 2-4 July in Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia. This workshop aimed to
develop a strategy on how agricultural
institutions in Ethiopia can work synergistically to
support the country’s agricultural development
strategy, with a special emphasis on the role of
Agroforestry R4D in improving livelihoods of
smallholder farmers.
In his keynote address, the Deputy Director
General of the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural
Research (EIAR), Dr. Adugna Wakjira
expressed optimism at the ability of ICRAF to
make improvements on the widespread
traditional agroforestry practices in Ethiopia
based on ICRAF’s long history of agroforestry
research. He also saw the reopening of the
ICRAF Ethiopia country office as timely since
the Ethiopian government had shown support for
agroforestry development in the country.
Professor August Temu, ICRAF’s deputy
director general – partnerships and impact
expressed commitment to work towards
incorporating agroforestry into policy agenda in
Ethiopia. He gave the example of Kenya’s policy
of 10% tree cover on the holdings that could be
taken as a policy direction for promoting
agroforestry in smallholder agriculture in
Ethiopia.
On his part, ICRAF’s Eastern Africa regional
coordinator, Dr. Jeremias Mowo supported the
establishment of ICRAF country offices as such
offices ensure efficient coordination of ICRAF
work in a country, links ICRAF to local network
(of national organizations and donors), support
the respective country’s agroforestry strategy
and provides an effective platform for joint
scouting for funding of agroforestry R4D and
other opportunities.
During the workshop, participants agreed to
follow-up on a number of items including
analyze existing policies to identify gaps with
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Participants at the agroforestry stakeholders’ workshop in Addis Ababa, 2 - 4 July, 2012
respect to agroforestry, develop an agroforestry
strategy for Ethiopia, identify and synthesize
lessons from successful agroforestry practices
and finally to develop agroforestry coordinating
and communication mechanisms.
There are currently three on-going projects led
either by ICRAF or where ICRAF is a major
partner in Ethiopia. Of these projects, one is
confined to Ethiopia and two involve other
countries in the region.
A total of five projects (1 confined to Ethiopia
and 4 involving other countries) are up-coming
projects that will start before the end of the year.
These include the Australia Centre for
International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
funded project on scaling up evergreen
agriculture which will involve Ethiopia and
Rwanda (Tier 1 starting August 2012) and
Burundi and Uganda in Tier 2 starting in 2013.
Two projects are currently being developed
targeting different donors. With an office in
Ethiopia, ICRAF expects to develop more
projects in collaboration with national partners
targeting both internal and external funding
sources.
Background information on this workshop is
available from:
http://www.worldagroforestry.org/sites/defa
ult/files/Revitalising%20%20Agroforestry.pdf
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Recently concluded and upcoming events
Inception workshops and launches of new projects or offices
Launch of the Kenya WASH Alliance from the 26th to 27th June 2012
Launch/opening of new office in Addis Ababa - Ethiopia during the month of August 2012
ACIAR Project Inception Workshop from the 6th -10th August 2012 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
ACIAR Project Inception Workshop from the 9th to 10th August 2012 in Kigali, Rwanda
Staff Matters
New Interns
Ruth Wanjiku Kinuthia and Vincent Rabach attached with the Evergreen Agriculture under the
supervision of Jonathan Muriuki and Mieke Bourne
George Ogaya and Cliff Mokua attached with the project on Strengthening Rural institutions
under the supervision of Joseph Tanui and Mieke Bourne
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