Restoration work at the Agroforestry Station of Baracoa focuses on recovering a 6 km strip of the Sabanilla River basin from the town of Paso de Cuba to Los Hoyos, contributing to the ecological restoration…
The Agroecological Identity Seal visibilizes organic producers and recognizes their efforts, while providing them an identity in the market and among consumers. The seal seeks to contribute to food sovereignty and security as well as…
For too long, “productivity” has been understood as agricultural fields of monocultures or extensive livestock pastures, while the forest is considered a non-productive area. In a world with severe environmental problems, the need arises for…
Over the next two years, IAFN and our key partner, FUNDECOR, are seeking to promote the ecological restoration of forests and improve livelihoods using diverse production systems such as analog forestry in the Maquenque region…
As part of our work on ecological restoration in the Purépecha region of Michoacán, in Mexico, we gave a course on horticulture, with a focus on medicinal plants, shrubs, herbs, and vegetables. We also developed…
Sri Lanka maintained a massive highland soil ecosystem that was untouched until the advent of the colonial experience. The rice farming soils as well as the agroecosystem was a co-evolved system that maintained its production…
Analog forestry is a methodology that is highly applicable for smallholder tea farmers in Cameroon. CENDEP, an IAFN partner in Cameroon recently held a series of workshops on analog forestry and related topics with a…
August 2014 was my second international trip out of my country, Cameroon, and my first outside of the African continent. I have no regrets at all that I took part in this expedition to the…
Currently, when discussions of climate change mitigation discuss carbon capture by plants, the primary focus is on woody biomass. There is a newfound appreciation of the ecosystem service provided by plants, in which they convert…
Ndu, in the North-West Region of Cameroon, is a town with a great potential for restoration and analog forestry. With some of the highest elevations in the country, its rolling hills were singled out for…