Across Ethiopia’s highlands and drylands, millions of hectares of once-productive soil lie degraded — stripped of vegetation, battered by erosion and increasingly unable to support the farming communities that depend on them. Regreening Africa was established to confront that challenge at scale. Working across multiple countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the initiative promotes farmer-led restoration practices … Read more
Ethiopia has officially launched its National Agroforestry Development Strategy 2026–2035, marking a transition from years of policy development to nationwide implementation. The launch was held on 29 December 2025 in Addis Ababa, bringing together government representatives, researchers and development partners involved in shaping the strategy. The strategy is intended to provide a coordinated framework for scaling up agroforestry practices … Read more
As Indonesia navigates rising demands for food, energy and climate mitigation, a strategic question sits at the centre of national development debates: how can growth continue without converting more natural forests? A recent perspective published in the Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science offers a clear, compelling and science-based response. The answer, the authors argue, lies not in further forest conversion, but in harnessing and making productive use of degraded, marginal and underutilized … Read more
View of an agroforestry plot in Liquica. Photo by CIFOR-ICRAF A policy dialogue on agroforestry-based forest landscape restoration was held in Dili, Timor-Leste’s capital, on 5 November 2024. The event was organized under the Development of Agroforestry Models for Promotion of Reforestation in the Different Agroecological Zones in Timor-Leste project. The initiative is funded by … Read more