Sentences with word «agroforestry»

She collaborated with Mary Njenga, a research scientist who specializes in bioenergy at the World Agroforestry Centre in Kenya.

Another category is biomass grown in excess of what would have grown absent the demand for bioenergy, such as growing winter cover crops for energy and replacing traditional — yet inefficient — fuel wood harvests in some poor countries with wood grown in agroforestry systems and local plantations.

New issuers from Québec joining the SVX include: ECOTIERRA is an operator of community - based sustainable agroforestry projects and a specialized impact fund manager delivering private equity market - type return alongside significant positive social and environmental impacts by addressing climate change and land degradation caused by deforestation.

It explores agroforestry models in France, permaculture and TRANSITION TOWN initiatives in England and the organic farming revolution in Cuba.

It uses techniques such as agroforestry, crop rotation, and rotational grazing, while excluding pesticides and factory farming.

The introductory wording slightly changed to «Farms with Agroforestry Crops located in areas where the original natural vegetative cover...» but that was minor.

Haiti: Trees for the Future, a U.S. - based organization working with Haitian farmers will bring land destroyed by the devastating earthquake back to productivity through planting beneficial fruit trees, using sustainable agroforestry practices.

Most helpful were afforestation of degraded areas with coffee agroforestry systems and boundary tree plantings.

These include live fences (hedgerows), riparian zones and conservation of forested areas, as well as an optimum shade level for agroforestry crops such as coffee.

Bernadette had just accepted a job as publications editor in an international agroforestry research center in Kenya, and we moved from Australia to Nairobi.

Therefore, the only fully exposed building at El Pilar is a house called Tzunu'un, and one of the most important features at El Pilar is a Maya forest garden (Forest gardens use inter-cropping to cultivate trees, crops, and livestock on the same land and is a sustainable agroforestry system based on woodland ecosystems.)

«In PEFC, Double A has found the right organization through which we can promote our trees outside forests based agroforestry, as well as be part of a global system where constant knowledge can be gained through appropriate networking and deliberation,» said Mr. Thirawit Leetavorn, Senior Executive Vice President of Double A.

Under these four headings, the company lists certain aims, including giving families access to good nutrition, eliminating child labour and increasing youth education, increasing household incomes for men and women, and developing agroforestry to mitigate deforestation.

Drawdown's results are higher in these aggressive scenarios as a result of our emphasis on high - carbon solutions like tree intercropping, silvopasture, multistrata agroforestry, and tropical staple trees (not central to Paustian's approach).

A recent study by the Honduran Foundation for Agricultural Research, FHIA, looked at the long - term profitability of a cacao agroforestry system.

Moringa wants to take an equity stake in companies that have found successful agroforestry models and that have limitations at operating or disseminating the model at scale and then help these companies scale it up.

For suppliers of agricultural commodities, that can include a range of practices from agroforestry, planting trees and maintaining forest buffer zones to reducing pesticide use, conserving water and soil and protecting wildlife.

And farms that have existing agroforestry shade cover are required to retain this shade cover.

In 2005, the SAN standard did have critical criteria that required a conservation program that included establishment and maintenance of shade trees for traditional agroforestry crops.

The study, called «Modeling the effects of adopting agroforestry on basin scale surface runoff and sediment yield in the Philippines,» uses a computer - based Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) to simulate the effects of different land uses on watershed hydrology and the ecosystem services provided by the Gabayan watershed.

It's being advanced by agroforestry associations around the world.

So, in 2007, to shore up its chronic funding shortfalls, VI Agroforestry took its 20 years of experience in Kenya and calculated the amount of carbon its activities lock in the soil.

However, this innovative and successful agroforestry initiative has remained outside the scope of forest certification, as there is currently no suitable framework available.

The system, called agroforestry, provides a low - stress environment, increases nutrients in the soil and helps maintain ground water levels.

Tropical forests, even agroforestry systems, sequester many tons of carbon and help buffer against climate change.

The coffee company Nespresso implements those practices on supplier farms, and is piloting a program to boost coffee farmers» climate resilience through agroforestry.

In Oaxaca, we've been working with young people in coffee farming communities to introduce agroforestry — the cultivation of native trees alongside coffee bushes that flourish in the shade — which is a way to stabilize the microclimate and keep water in the ground.

My heart sinks a little, and I break the news to Jean - Marie Irakabaho, POSADA founder and agroforestry expert who, for the next three years, will be using the water quality monitoring equipment I've brought.

Last year in my post The (de) evolution of Rainforest Alliance shade criteria, I outlined the incremental relaxation of the criteria for shade over agroforestry crops — what the public understands to signify «shade - grown coffee.»

These results contribute to our understanding of the role of agroforestry certification on tropical ecosystem conservation, and are the first account of the effectiveness of a specific coffee certification guideline on non-point source pollution control.

Incorporating agroforestry approaches into commodity value chains.

«This project is part of the IDB Multilateral Investment Fund's larger strategy to help agroforestry businesses maximize the value of their natural resources by improving sustainable forest management, strengthening business skills, and creating links to markets,» said Gregory Watson, Lead Specialist, Multilateral Investment Fund, Inter-American Development Bank.

The beans are pliable and aromatic, and are without a doubt some of the finest we've worked with... Their approach to working with the vanilla growers is that they are not only trading with the farmers, but also providing support for sound agroforestry practices and crop diversification.

They produced a document, «Guidance on coffee carbon project development using the simplified agroforestry methodology» (PDF).

In my post «Coffee farms and carbon sequestration,» I discussed the potential of carbon credits in helping coffee farmers earn extra income, and provided some statistics and references on carbon sequestration on coffee farms in and other tropical agroforestry systems.

The introduction of trees to form agroforestry systems provided sources of firewood, timber, fruits and shade, but also helped in erosion control, protecting water courses through the stabilization of the soil and as wind breaks, regulating the velocity of the winds.