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…
The International Analog Forestry Network is an organization that is helping to heal the life support systems of the planet and we’ve been busy expanding our reach and our organization to meet the ever-increasing demands…
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…
Last year, IAFN launched a new instalment of its demonstration sites program. In our 2014 call for proposals, we invited applications from around the world for new sites where people would restore degraded ecosystems using…
This article was originally published on the blog of the Global Landscapes Forum by Simon Riley, an agronomist and independent researcher with the Global AgroEcology Alliance and a development reporter for the Global South Development…
In the aftermath of a brutal civil war, war-torn communities are planting the seeds of restoration and peace. On Saturday May, 3rd Rainforest Rescue International and its implementing partner, Oxfam Italy, officially opened a seed…
It has been about thirty-five years since I began to develop and promote the idea that we had to use the designs of nature in forestry. Prompted by the urgency created by disappearance of indicator…
Sri Lanka is an island with a land area of 6,570,134 ha and a coastline of 1,600 km. The island consists of a broad coastal plain and a central mountainous area with elevations rising to…