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The mission of Southeast Asia regional programme is to reduce poverty and sustain the natural resource base in the uplands of Southeast Asia through improved agroforestry systems.
Major themes
- National policy constraints to agroforestry and upland resource management
- Management of landscape-level impacts of land-use change
- Rehabilitation and improved utilization of degraded lands by smallholder agroforestry systems
-Agroforests as a sustainable upland resource management system
- Capacity building
ICRAF, as part of the CGIAR or ‘Future Harvest’ family of international institutes, aims to contribute to some of the most pressing problems of this time:
Three quarters of the world’s poorest people - the 1.2 billion who live on less than one dollar a day - live in rural areas, and depend on agriculture, one way or another. The world has set itself the Millennium Development Goals of 50% poverty reduction from 2000 levels by 2015 as a first step….
Rural poverty and poor health are causally related, with dependence on traditional medicinal plants, surface water resources and local agrodiversity as basis of healthy diets is at risk during the process of intensification of agriculture and potential benefits of globalization are not yet in reach for a majority of rural poor
Water supply and conflicts over use of water and (forest) lands: while the water supply remains constant at best, the demands are increasing and so are the conflicts over water use
Biodiversity conservation has to be made compatible with local livelihoods: the rain forest challenge is to protect key resources while allowing rural poor to improve their livelihoods
While there is healthy market demand for many products that local agroforestry systems can produce, access to markets is often restricted by rules and taxes, lack of transport and information gaps, limiting the profitability of the use of local agrobiodiversity
Government structures and processes tend to be biased towards urban perceptions and needs, and may favour development interventions that do not address the needs of the rural poor.
Our objectives in Southeast Asia are:
- To develop a more systematic understanding of the role of trees in land use mosaics in Southeast Asia, and articulate the implications of this knowledge for the sustainable management of natural resources in upland watersheds
- To redress policy imbalances by providing policy options that will reduce poverty and conserve natural resources, and facilitate the use of such options in policymaking processes
- To develop the capacity of our research and development partners to address the most urgent natural resource management problems in the uplands through agroforestry
- To provide methods, tools, and analyses that lead to institutional innovations for successful participatory management of natural resource
- To identify and refine key agroforestry technical innovations that lead to more profitable and sustainable use of upland landscapes
- To facilitate the impact of agroforestry innovations on the land via the decisions of the millions of practical agroforesters, through strong linkages with development projects that employ recent research outputs.
Major themes
- National policy constraints to agroforestry and upland resource management
- Management of landscape-level impacts of land-use change
- Rehabilitation and improved utilization of degraded lands by smallholder agroforestry systems
-Agroforests as a sustainable upland resource management system
- Capacity building
ICRAF, as part of the CGIAR or ‘Future Harvest’ family of international institutes, aims to contribute to some of the most pressing problems of this time:
Three quarters of the world’s poorest people - the 1.2 billion who live on less than one dollar a day - live in rural areas, and depend on agriculture, one way or another. The world has set itself the Millennium Development Goals of 50% poverty reduction from 2000 levels by 2015 as a first step….
Rural poverty and poor health are causally related, with dependence on traditional medicinal plants, surface water resources and local agrodiversity as basis of healthy diets is at risk during the process of intensification of agriculture and potential benefits of globalization are not yet in reach for a majority of rural poor
Water supply and conflicts over use of water and (forest) lands: while the water supply remains constant at best, the demands are increasing and so are the conflicts over water use
Biodiversity conservation has to be made compatible with local livelihoods: the rain forest challenge is to protect key resources while allowing rural poor to improve their livelihoods
While there is healthy market demand for many products that local agroforestry systems can produce, access to markets is often restricted by rules and taxes, lack of transport and information gaps, limiting the profitability of the use of local agrobiodiversity
Government structures and processes tend to be biased towards urban perceptions and needs, and may favour development interventions that do not address the needs of the rural poor.
Our objectives in Southeast Asia are:
- To develop a more systematic understanding of the role of trees in land use mosaics in Southeast Asia, and articulate the implications of this knowledge for the sustainable management of natural resources in upland watersheds
- To redress policy imbalances by providing policy options that will reduce poverty and conserve natural resources, and facilitate the use of such options in policymaking processes
- To develop the capacity of our research and development partners to address the most urgent natural resource management problems in the uplands through agroforestry
- To provide methods, tools, and analyses that lead to institutional innovations for successful participatory management of natural resource
- To identify and refine key agroforestry technical innovations that lead to more profitable and sustainable use of upland landscapes
- To facilitate the impact of agroforestry innovations on the land via the decisions of the millions of practical agroforesters, through strong linkages with development projects that employ recent research outputs.