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Despite the progress made in the past two decades to fight malnutrition, almost one-fourth of children under age five are stunted.

Meet the engineer who quit his job and planted over 40,000 trees in 14 years 620 Brahmanavam , since 2003, studying and growing plants. The land as it was in 2005 where trees such as Mango and Tamarind failed to grow. Ganesan RP remains positive that barren lands can be converted to greener areas, using dry land agroforestry methods. Planting appropriate trees in these arid areas can subsequently improve the ground water levels. Ganesan’s journey Ganesan took up engineering and started working after his degree. It was in 2003 that he left his job in pursuit of his passion. “I was not hap...

March 5, 2021 4:18 pm Forestry students of University College Dublin (UCD) are hosting a free online seminar on agroforestry next Wednesday (March 10). Taking place from 1:00pm to 3:30pm, speakers on the day will cover the benefits of agroforestry “from foresters’ point of view, the experience from a farmer’s perspective, environmental benefits and an explanation of how to go about getting started, including grants”. Agroforestry is the practice of growing trees on agricultural land in conjunction with grazing or crops. While a relatively new practice, it has been seen as an attractiv...

Cocoa4Future: putting people and the environment back at the heart of cocoa growing 19/01/2021 - Press release Making cocoa growing in West Africa more sustainable and resilient... this is the task set for the Cocoa4Future project, coordinated by CIRAD and funded by the EU DeSIRA programme and the Agence Française de Développement. Over five years, more than 150 monocrop or agroforestry cocoa plantings will be assessed from an agro-environmental point of view, while 350 farms in Ivory Coast and Ghana will benefit from support for new farmer strategies, notably as regards agroforestry. The d...

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