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…
One of the International Analog Forestry Network’s key programs is capacity building activities relating to the practice of analog forestry. For this to expand internationally, it is important to have a solid network of trainers…
As the earth has travelled around the sun in this year that we call 2014, the forest garden at Belipola has been slowly re-entering the consciousness of the world. It had been quietly fermenting for…
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…
One of the key challenges of running an international network is this: how can you translate a global scope into local results? At IAFN, we work with local partners who have impact on the ground…
Analog forestry in the post-2015 agenda Our director, Bob Sutton, recently attended the meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation, held in Mexico City. Now, he reflects on the positioning of analog forestry…
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…
Secretariat happenings From April 14th to 16th, we were privileged to join over 1500 delegates from around the world in Mexico City to talk about the future of development cooperation. South-south and triangular learning networks…