World Agroforestery in Practice
Raise awareness among everyone.
This initiative has for objective to raise awareness on the universality and omnipresence of agroforestry around the world’s rural landscapes.
Factsheets about agroforestry systems
Wégoubri : the Sahelien bocage
« Include the concept of environmental protection into the Sahelian agriculture using a bocage layout in Burkina Faso »
- Country : Afrique, Burkina Faso
- Organisation : Terre Verte
- Authors : Henri Girard
- Type of practices : Sylvopastoralism
- Production : Cattle, fodder, fruits, wood
Shorea Javanica : the multistrates agroforests
« A model of sustainable agroforestry system in wet tropical conditions »
- Country : Asia, Sumatra
- Organisation : Cirad
- Authors : Emmanuel Torquebiau
- Type of practices : Arboriculture
- Production : Resin
Morocco : The Agdal forests of the High Atlas
« A sustainable way of managing collectively high mountains’ forests with sylvopastoralism »
- Country : Africa, Morocco
- Organisation : Aix-Marseille University, University of Marrakech
- Authors : Didier Genin, Mohamed Alifriqui
- Type of practices : Sylvopastoralism
- Production : Cattle, fodder, wood
The difformed ash trees of the High Atlas
« Pollarded trees as a key component of a pastoral system with resources scarcity »
- Country : Africa, Morocco
- Organisation : Aix-Marseille University, University of Marrakech
- Authors : Didier Genin, Mohammed Alifriqui
- Type of practices : Sylvopastoralism
- Production : Wood, fodder, seeds, dyes
Agroforestery systems of Cacao in Cameroon
« When producing cocoa in a multipurpose system is possible »
- Country : Africa, Cameroon
- Organisation : Cirad
- Authors : Stéphane Saj, Patrick Jagoret
- Type of practices : Under shade cocoa
- Production : Cocoa, fruits, firewood, timber
Natural maple orchards of Quebec
« Going from a forest ecosystem to a productive agroforestry association »
- Country : North America, Québec
- Organisation : Laval University
- Authors : Alain Olivier
- Type of practices : Arboriculture with herbs
- Production : Syrup, wood, medicinal plants
The Quesungual agroforestery system
« Agroforestry and soil conservation for production of maize and beans in the dry corridor of Central America »
- Country : Latin America, Honduras
- Organisation : ICRAF
- Authors : Jenny C. Ordoñez
- Type of practices : Assisted Natural Regeneration and crops
- Production : Maize, beans, wood, fodder
Saheliens parcs of Faidherbia Albida
« Traditional agroforestry associations with multiple uses »
- Country : Africa, Senegal-Mali-Niger- Chad-Sudan-Cameroon
- Organisation : CIRAD
- Authors : Régis Peltier, Oumarou Palou Madi, Lucie Temgoua et Abdoul Karim Boubacar
- Type of practices : Sylvopastoralism
- Production : Cattle, fodder, wood
Agroforestery and transhumance in Sardinia
« Turn neglected unproductive agroforestry components into food/fodder according to historic know-hows »
- Country : Europe, Italy (Sardinia)
- Organisation : CNR ISPAAM and ISPA
- Authors : Leonardo Sulas, Giovanni A. Re and Guy D’hallewin
- Type of practices : Sylvopastoralism
- Production : Milk, meat, wool, wood, fruits
This project is developped by the French Association of Agroforestery and Savanna Institute with the support of the French Ministry of Agriculture and Food.
