Linking Agroforestry to Sustainable Agriculture

ICRAF has been afforded a great opportunity to link in agroforestry (and CGIAR work in general) more to the growing field of sustainable agriculture. It is also an opportunity to strengthen the social science focus in our work as requested by our Board.

Wearing an ICRAF hat, DDG ICRAF - Dr. Tony Simons has been invited to be an Editor of the Thomson rated International Journal of Sustainable Agriculture – a quarterly publication.

Tony invites you to check out the journal and internet accessible articles from it by clicking here.

Specifically, The International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability (IJAS) is a cross-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing the understanding of sustainability in agricultural and food systems.

IJAS publishes both theoretical developments and critical appraisals of new evidence on what is not sustainable about current or past agricultural and food systems, as well as on transitions towards agricultural and rural sustainability at farm, community, regional, national and international levels, and through food supply chains. It is committed to clear and consistent use of language and logic, and the use of appropriate evidence to substantiate empirical statements.
IJAS increases knowledge on what technologies and processes are contributing to agricultural sustainability, what policies, institutions and economic structures are preventing or promoting sustainability, and what relevant lessons should be learned.

Topics covered include:
Agriculture - Environment Interactions
Agriculture and Rural Economy Interactions
Institutional and Policy Issues
Technology Development
Food and Consumer Issues

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Forthcoming events

The CGIAR ICT-KM program's online Social Media Workshop – highly recommended!

After a successful pilot online event, the CGIAR, through its ICT-KM Program, is pleased to offer an online Social Media Workshop from May 25 to June 12 2009.

For more information visit:
http://ictkm.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/sign-up-now-for-the-next-social-media-workshop/

Publication of the Week

Landcare: local action-global progress
The Landcare movement is growing exponentially and its history matters. For this reason, this new book has been drafted, in true Landcare form, by many hands. It brings together story after story, how landcare is emerging in different geographical and cultural contexts—what has worked and what has not. The book provides insights into the nuts and bolts of the different experiences, how they came together and what the next steps may be. It is a snapshot in time but one that will serve as a resource to those who are going to take landcare forward in their own communities, countries and regions.

Catacutan, D.; Neely, C.; Johnson, M.; Poussard, H.; Youl, R. World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Nairobi (Kenya) and Australian Landcare International. 2009. Landcare: local action – global progress. Nairobi, Kenya: World Agroforestry Centre, 148p.Website


Related Publications

Catacutan, D.C.; Tanui, J. World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Laguna (Philippines) 2007. Engaging stakeholders in integrated natural resource management: approaches and guidelines from landcare. Laguna, Philippines: World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) 8p.
Website

Yatich, T.; Awiti, A.; Nyukuri, E.; Mutua, J.; Kyalo, A.; Tanui, J.; Catacutan, D. World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Nairobi (Kenya) 2007. Policy and institutional context for NRM in Kenya: challenges and opportunities for landcare. Nairobi, Kenya: World Agroforestry Centre. ICRAF Working Paper no. 43, 55p. Website

Cramb, R.A.; Catacutan, D.; Culasero-Arellano, Z.; Mariano, K. 2007. The 'landcare' approach to soil conservation in the Philippines: an assessment of farm-level impacts. Journal for Australian Experimental Agriculture 47 (2007) p. 721-726.

Catacutan, D.C. World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Laguna, Philippines. 2007. Scaling up landcare in the Philippines: issues, methods and strategies. Laguna, Philippines: World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) PhD Thesis, 242p

Forthcoming events

Invitation to attend the Electronic Records Management Capacity Course: “Managing the transition in Records Management” 6th - 8th May 2009, eDevelopment House, Nairobi, Kenya.

Organization and every individual has records! Business offices, government agencies, non-profit groups, educational institutions, and medical facilities-just to name a few-must deal with enormous amounts of records on a daily basis. Records must be managed from the time they are created or received, through distribution, use, and maintenance, until they are finally destroyed or permanently archived. Well managed records are essential if government and organisations are to function effectively, develop and implement policy, plan and take decisions regardless of the media on which the record is stored, the record must be properly managed to be an asset to the organization.



It is from this background that AeRC is hosting a three-day (6-8 May 2009) capacity building workshop on Electronic Records Management in Nairobi, Kenya to bring information managers to speed with this very powerful process. The workshop will provide participants with both a theoretical and practical understanding of the key concepts of Electronic Records Management. This Records Management course will give a basic overview of records management terminology, concepts, and procedures to successfully manage records in today's offices. Fore more information visit: http://www.africanedevelopment.org

New publications by ICRAF Staff

Journal articles

Russell, J.R., Kadu, C.A.C., Jamnadass, R., Booth, A., Corderio, N.J., Woodhead, M., Dawson, I.K. 2009. AFLP and SSR diversity in the African fruit tree Allanblackia: implications for management of a genus newly subject to domestication for the edible oil industry. Tree Genetics & Genomes DOI 10.1007/s11295-009-0205-1, 11p.

Reports
Mati, B., Malembo, A., Nyoni, M., Mowo, J. 2007. Report of the process documentation training workshop for technical staff. IMAWESA & Rural Livelihoods Support Programme (RLSP) Workshop, Malawi, 1st to 5th October, 2007 IMAWESA Proceedings 15. Nairobi: ICRISAT Regional Office for Eastern and Southern Africa, 29p. Website

Manuals
Mowo, J.G., Opondo, C., Hatibu, N., Mati, B. 2007. Improved management of Agricultural water in Eastern and Southern Africa (IMAWESA): guidelines on process documentation. IMAWESA Training Manual 1: Guidelines of Process Documentation. Nairobi: ASARECA, 9p. Website

IMPORTANT INFORMATION TO AUTHORS

Please note that besides sending hard copies of your new publications to the library or soft copies to icraflibrary@cgiar.org for citation in the weekly publications list and inclusion in our global database, we require additional information from you to make it easier to retrieve the publications.To provide the additional information please click on this form and complete the details that should go along with your submitted publications. For more information, visit our library site: http://worldagroforestry.catalog.cgiar.org/library

Publication of the week

Mainstreaming Climate Change into Agricultural Education: Challenges and Perspectives

Climate change is adversely affecting practically all economic sectors. Africa is projected to have a future associated with scarce water, declining agricultural yields, encroaching desert and damaged coastal infrastructure. With graduating students from tertiary agriculture and natural resource management institutions expected to provide solutions to development challenges, it is unfortunate that climate change has not been integrated into the curricula to any meaningful extent. Consequently graduating students are ill-equipped to advise meaningfully on the challenges posed by climate change.

This working paper is an outcome of a symposium organized to share information on climate change challenges for agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa; explore methods of mainstreaming climate change knowledge into agricultural education; and identify recommendations on effective policies, institutions and capacity. The brief lays down the key issues in climate change: who is affected and what direction we are taking if the negative effects presented by climate change are not checked. It presents a compelling argument on the role of tertiary education in making meaningful contributions and goes further to present an action plan to ensure that climate change is integrated into the curricula of tertiary agriculture and natural resource management institutions including the key components of such a curricula.

Chakeredza, S.; Temu, A.B.; Yaye, A.; Mukingwa, S.; Saka, J.D.K. World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Lilongwe (Malawi). SADC-ICRAF Agroforestry Project. 2009. Mainstreaming climate change into agricultural education: challenges and perspectives. Nairobi, Kenya: World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) ICRAF Working Paper no. 82, 30p. Website

Forthcoming events

Early Bird Registration for 2nd World Congress of Agroforestry, 23rd-28th August 2009, Nairobi, Kenya

The Congress Secretariat is pleased to announce that registration is open for WCA2009. Participants who register by 30 April 2009- Early Bird Registration- will enjoy a reduced rate.

The 2nd World Congress of Agroforestry promises to be the premier event for 2009 – a platform to share global knowledge and experience on the opportunities that will leverage agroforestry science and development as a sustainable land use system worldwide. The Congress will serve as a forum for researchers, educators, practitioners and policy makers to share ideas and solutions that will impact positively on rural livelihoods, food security and the global environment.

Register online at www.worldagroforestry.org/wca2009 by 30 April 2009 and save $50 on the registration fee.

We look forward to seeing you in Nairobi, Kenya!

World Congress of Agroforestry - WCA2009

23^rd to 28^th August 2009

www.worldagroforestry.org/wca2009

Email: wca2009@cgiar.org

Online Working Papers on Economics

World Agroforestry Centre's Economics Working Papers are now registered with EconPapers, an information dissemination service providing access to RePEc databank, which holds a large collection of online Economics working papers, journal articles and software.

This is in an effort to improve the availability and accessibility of our research outputs and this particular service will help in promoting our economics outputs to a targeted audience.

We will soon be posting our economics journal articles to the same website and will keep it updated with new papers as they get published.

You may view the papers at http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/rafwpaper/ or search for them from the website’s homepage at http://econpapers.repec.org/