The cultivation of indigenous and exotic fruits for sub-Saharan Africa's domestic markets can
bring increased revenues for smallholders and improve the diets of local consumers. There …

Climate change adaptation and mitigation are usually the objects of separate projects, but in
this review we argue that in agricultural contexts, there are often technical and financial …

This paper follows the transition from ethnobotany to a deeper scientific understanding of the
food and medicinal properties of African agroforestry tree products as inputs into the start of …

Agroforestry tree domestication emerged as a farmer-driven, market-led process in the early
1990s and became an international initiative. A participatory approach now supplements the …

Many rural households rely on indigenous fruit trees as sources of cash and subsistence in
the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), but until recently there has been little …

ABSTRACT The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) has been working in the African Humid
Tropics (AHT) since 1987. Despite its natural wealth, small-scale farmers of AHT are among …

It has been recognized that an important factor in improving the viability of rural livelihoods
in developing countries is the promotion of sustainable agriculture. As opposed to relying …

Surveys were conducted in villages in five regions of Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Senegal
to determine priority tree functions and species. Villagers listed eight priority functions and …

To address the issues of food insecurity within the context of land degradation, extreme
poverty and social deprivation, this review seeks first to understand the main constraints to …

More than 420 research papers, involving more than 50 tree species, form the literature on
agroforestry tree domestication since the 1992 conference that initiated the global …