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Vol. 1: June-July 2012

Message from the Regional Coordinator By Dr Jeremias Mowo

Dear Readers, it is my pleasure to invite you to our new Eastern Africa

regional e-newsletter known as The Link. This June - July edition is the very

first of our online e-newsletter series, which is designed to share with you

short articles, events, publications and other exciting news. Initially, the

newsletter will be on a bi-monthly basis. However, as the frequency and

number of articles increase, we will strive to produce the newsletter on a

monthly basis Through The Link, we hope to connect the region to our

colleagues, stakeholders, partners and agroforestry practitioners in general

by informing or sharing news, knowledge and skills on most current developments. The e-newsletter is

produced by a team of rejuvenated ICRAF EA staff based at the institutions headquarters in Nairobi,

Kenya.

ICRAF EA has country offices in Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania and Ethiopia. Additionally, it has limited

activities in South Sudan and Burundi. The region has four main project areas of focus which are:

Institutional Strengthening and Landcare, Evergreen Agriculture, Bioenergy and Improved Capacity in

Rainwater Management. We are also in the process of developing our regional strategy for 2012 – 2016

in line with ICRAFs mission, vision and major research themes. The strategy attempts to address the

common challenges of drought, erosion and hunger in order to contribute towards achieving the goals

and aspirations articulated by the various national, regional, and international actors.

The Link News and events from ICRAF - Eastern Africa

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In this issue, we have…

News and information from the countries Kenya:

ICRAF Board of Trustees visit to Kisumu.

Scaling up conservation agriculture in Zambia.

Sound Strategies for Improved Soil Water & Nutrient Retention: Conservation Agriculture with Trees (CAWT) Case Study of Masongaleni, Kibwezi.

Sustainable Land Management: Towards a climate smart agriculture.

Model schools in Machakos to embrace Evergreen Agriculture.

Uganda: MoU between ICRAF Uganda Country Office and World Vision Uganda

Going to Scale: Enhancing the Adaptive Management Capacities of Rural Communities for SLM in the Highlands of eastern Africa’. An AHI-PAAP project

Highlights of feed plan workshops for production team and DFBAs extension workers

Training workshop on Capacity Needs Assessment by Strengthening Rural Institutions project

3rd Lake Victoria Basin Stakeholders Forum

Ethiopia:

Revitalizing Agroforestry Research for Development (R4D) Upcoming events Staff matters

ICRAF East Africa Regional Offices at the Centres Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya

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News from the countries…

Kenya ICRAF Board of Trustees Visit to Kisumu

By Walter Adongo and Sheila Abwanda

The ICRAF Board of Trustees (BOT)

accompanied by the Senior Leadership Team

(SLT) visited the Kisumu Site in Eastern Africa

region on 28th April 2012. The site manager Mr.

Georges Aertssen and ICRAF Kisumu staff who

gave presentations on the activities being

implemented within Western Kenya welcomed

the team. The team then proceeded to the field

to see various projects on the ground.

The Kouko Women Group in Lower Nyando

Block, which is implementing a project

supported by grants from the COMART

Foundation - Canada, was the first stop for the

team. The project combines Asset Based

Community Driven Development model (ABCD)

and Value Chain Analysis (VCA) in improving

their livelihoods and environmental resilience

while responding to the effects of climate

change. The team witnessed firsthand the

integration of agroforestry in smallholder farms.

They held discussions with one of the farmers,

David Achiando, whose life is being transformed

from growing Carica Papaya (pawpaw). The

family had earned about $1700 from their 10

pawpaw plants and is now able to pay fees for

their son who is in secondary school.

The second stop was Kaptumo, 70km from

Kisumu town. Here, the East African Dairy

Development (EADD) staff and Kapcheno Dairy

Group members welcomed the group to Mr.

Njoroge’s farm. He is among the few EADD

farmers and a Kapcheno Dairy member who

practices complete zero grazing of six cattle,

keeps chicken, plants fodder, food crops and

agroforestry trees on his farm. Dr. Todd

Rosenstock gave a brief on the activities of

Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture

(MICCA) project in collaboration with EADD. The

project aims at adding value to the dairy

development efforts by building capacity for the

integration of climate-smart practices that

simultaneously increase productivity, income

and ecosystem resilience within the farming

systems of small holder farmers. The chairman

of Kapcheno Dairy Group, Mr. Wilfred Kembio

introduced the group members present and

explained how farmers in the region have

embraced dairy farming while promoting climate

smart agriculture.

Fodder crop with boundary planting of agroforestry trees (Grevillea robusta)

The team then toured Mr. Njoroge’s 4 acre farm.

Todd explained to the guests the protocol of

sampling greenhouse gases (GHGs) that is

carried out in three ecosystems; complete zero

grazing set up, semi zero grazing and non-zero

grazing to monitor GHGs changes that come

with implementation of climate smart agriculture.

A visit to the Kapcheno Dairy Group chilling

Plants, Kaptumo and Ndurio, followed. These

plants have helped small-scale dairy farmers

come together and process milk then sell in

large scale for higher returns.

This very successful and well-appreciated field

day came to an end with a dinner function at

Imperial Hotel in Kisumu that brought together

representatives from Kenya Agricultural

Research Institute, Kenya Forestry Research

Institute and collaborating NGO’s and agencies.

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Scaling up Conservation Agriculture in Zambia

By Maimbo Malesu and Vivian Atakos

Sinoya Phiri's house in Zambia before taking up CAWT

A team constituting Vrije Universiteit University

Professor Will Critchley, World Bank Institute

(WBI) representatives Dr. Mei Xie and Dr.

Gerald Kapp; ICRAF Water Management

Programme Coordinator Malesu Maimbo and

Country Wise Communications - a filming crew

from the UK- engaged in a mission to produce a

seven minutes video on scaling up of

Conservation Agriculture (CA) in Zambia

between 29th May and 1st June 2012. With this

visit, an update on the assessment of water

harvesting in Zambia with a focus on soil and

water conservation or level bund technique was

also done. This was part of the WHaTeR

project’s ongoing assessment on the

performance of water harvesting technologies in

15 selected countries including Zambia.

During this mission, the team noted the use of

Faidherbia albida within CA. “What is evident

now in Zambia is that there are over 150,000

smallholder farmers practicing CA and their

maize yield has increased on average from less

than one tonne to 4 tonnes/ha.

Where Faidherbia albida has been planted,

farmers are only applying 50% of the

recommended fertilizer application rate” says

Malesu Maimbo.

The visits to best performing CA farms revealed

that farmer’s livelihoods have significantly been

transformed due to increased income from sale

of surplus maize. However since rotations are

mandatory in CA, farmers are still finding it

difficult to sell legumes.

The team also noted many outstanding research

questions on Conservation Agriculture With

Trees (CAWT), which need addressing. These

include: the contribution of CAWT to the buildup

of soil carbon; competition for soil water

between Faidherbia albida and crops;

contribution of litter/leaves in Faidherbia albida

to soil fertility improvement and soil carbon;

which components of CA are critical to its

performance; and finally how best scaling up

can be achieved, especially with resource poor

farmers.

Sinoya Phiri's house built with proceeds from his farm after taking up CAWT

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Sound Strategies for Improved Soil Water & Nutrient Retention:

Conservation Agriculture with Trees (CAWT) Case Study of Masongaleni, Kibwezi By Chester Kalinda, Maimbo Malesu, Alex Oduor, Kipruto Cherogony, Peter Gachie, Jonathan Muriuki &

Dennis Garrity

Masongaleni is one of the divisions of Kibwezi District, Kenya, which falls within the arid and semi-arid lands of Kenya. The dominant soils are the Lixisols and Acrisols which are shallow, low in soil fertility and have low water retention. They also have strong surface sealing and crusting properties. The area has bimodal rainfall of long rains (March to June) and short rains (October to December) totaling an average of 500mm annually.

Installation of double ring infiltrometer

In 2009, ICRAF, through Dr. Dennis Garrity, initiated trials on Conservation Agriculture with Trees (CAWT) in Kibwezi with the objective of investigating the ability of fertilizer tree species in improving the fertility and water retention of the soils. Trials were established in 24 farms to study the effect of three fertilizer tree species (Faidherbia albida, Tephrosia candida and Gliricidia sepium) on improving soil fertility and to identify which among these trees will survive the harsh climatic conditions of the area as well as contribute to improving soil fertility and water retention. In January 2012, Mr. Chester Kalinda, a Research Fellow from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology joined ICRAF to determine whether inclusion of trees in Conservation Agriculture is an effective land

management strategy for conserving nutrients and soil water. His other objective was to examine the suitability, through performance, of the three fertilizer tree species for CAWT under the semi-arid conditions. During the auguring, after about 15cm soil depth, the water infiltration process became difficult. On further investigations, it was observed that a hard pan of approximately 5 – 10 cm depth existed in virtually all the farms. This was especially the case in control plots that had been prepared using conventional tillage practices, particularly use of ox-drawn mould board plough. Control plots could hardly hold rainwater. Most of the water ran off to the retention; fanya juu or fanya chini ditches. Gliricidia had very high foliage and rapid regeneration after cutting. Farmers really liked Gliricidia with some of them noting a doubling in yield where this tree was intercropped with green grams. During harvest time, a farmer Edward Musyoki reported a yield of 5 (90kg) bags per acre under Gliricidia. According to the farmer, this is slightly more than double the normal harvest which is often between 1 to 2 bags per acre. When looking at survival rates of the three species, Faidherbia albida recorded the highest (44%) while Tephrosia performed poorly. Except in one farm with about 50%, the rest had less than 1% survival rates.

Yield losses due to years of ploughing and moisture stress

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Sustainable Land Management: Towards a climate smart agricultureBy Maimbo Malesu and Vivian Atakos

A mapping tool for assessing the potential for

water harvesting and other sustainable land

management practices such as agroforestry and

soil and water conservation developed by

ICRAF elicited a lot of interest during a recent

three day workshop by the World Bank Institute

(WBI) and Bunda College in Malawi in late May

2012. The interest was shown during a guest

address delivered by Malesu Maimbo,

Programme Coordinator, Rain Water

Management, Eastern Africa region on Climate

Adaptation Strategy: Water Harvesting and

Conservation Agriculture –experience from the

region and beyond.

The workshop titled “Sustainable Land-Water

Management: Towards a Climate-Smart

Agriculture” is one in a series of training

workshops by the WBI. 36 participants drawn

from training/capacity building institutions,

government departments, NGOs, financial

institutions and journalists in Sub-Saharan Africa

directly involved or working on sustainable land

management with an emphasis on climate smart

agriculture attended the workshop.

During the three day workshop, participants

discussed Conservation Agriculture (CA) in

Africa and cited Zambia as a good example in

the scaling up of CA. A lot however still needed

to be done in Malawi since very little had been

achieved since the official launch of CA in 2004.

The WBI also launched The Climate Change

Knowledge Portal, a central hub of information,

data and reports about climate change around

the world. Through the portal, one can query,

map, compare, chart and summarize key climate

and climate related information. This tool is

useful for development practitioners and policy

makers and is available online:

http://sdwebx.worldbank.org/climateportal/index.

cfm

This is the second workshop where ICRAF has

been asked to give a key lecture in a series of

training workshops conducted by WBI for

participants in Sub-Saharan Africa.

In a separate meeting during the workshop

period, Malesu Maimbo met Dr. Henrie Njoloma,

Chairperson of the Rainwater Harvesting

Association of Malawi. Discussions were held on

the upcoming 15th Southern and Eastern Africa

Rainwater Network (SearNet) meeting

scheduled for November 2012 in Naivasha,

Kenya. Those wishing to register for this

conference can do so via the following link:

http://worldagroforestrycentre.org/projects/searnet/conferen

ce/registration.php

Model schools in Machakos to embrace Evergreen Agriculture

By Vivian Atakos

Five schools in Machakos County are the latest addition to 129 schools in Kenya implementing the

Healthy Learning Programme. An induction workshop organized by the Flemish Association for

Development Cooperation (VVOB), the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and the Ministry of Education

(MoE) took place on the 25th and 26th June in Machakos.

Participants included teachers and parents from the 5 schools as well as education officials from the MoE

headquarters and Machakos district. This workshop aimed at introducing participants to the concept of

Healthy Learning (HL) and guiding them on how to start the programme in their own schools.

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Workshop participants pose for a group photo

The HLP involves the introduction and

strengthening of small school projects like

school gardens/farms with agroforestry

technologies, small livestock production units,

water management, and other school projects to

support learning in health, nutrition, natural

resource management and sustainability in

primary schools and their surrounding

communities.

As part of the Evergreen Agriculture programme

implemented by ICRAF, the new HL schools in

Machakos County will be linked to farmer groups

in their locality so that they can synergize and

work together in tree nursery establishment and

management. Beneficiary schools and farmer

groups are being trained in areas such as tree

nurseries as a business, nursery practices and

nursery profitability. The schools will manage

this initiative as part of the HLP.

VVOB and ICRAF’s collaboration started in 1994

through secondment of young environmental

scientists. In 2002, ICRAF and VVOB embarked

on the “Farmers of the Future” project with a

focus on partnering with schools and education

ministries in various African countries, including

Kenya, to promote environmental and

agricultural education. Healthy Learning was

developed in 2008 based on the lessons learned

from “Farmers of the Future” project

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Uganda

MoU between ICRAF Uganda Country Office and World Vision Uganda By Joy Tukahirwa

Left to right: World Vision staff Enid Kabasinguzi Ocaya and Pamela Ebanyat working with Joy Tukahirwa of ICRAF on the MoU

The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Acting

Country Representative in Uganda, Dr Joy

Tukahirwa, worked with the Disaster Risk

Reduction and Community Resilience Manager

and the Livelihood specialist of World Vision

Uganda (WVU) on the 21st June 2012 to

prepare a draft framework as part of the

preliminary process of signing a Memorandum

of Understanding (MoU) that will see the two

organizations formally working together.

Formalization of the collaboration will result in a

win-win situation for both organizations in their

areas of work. For WVU, this collaboration

targets the promotion of capacity building,

applied research, quality agroforestry

germplasm, policy analysis and advocacy in

agroforestry and generally evergreen

agriculture. ICRAF on the other hand envisages

leveraging on WV success stories of a wider

coverage among vulnerable communities for up-

scaling opportunities with a focus on low cost

and rapid methods of land regeneration as a

response to climate change.

ICRAF Uganda country office has in the recent

past prioritized major engagements with

Government of Uganda towards increasing her

visibility in the country while building strong and

viable strategic partnerships towards promoting

the science and practice of agroforestry. World

Vision is one of the partners fronted by ICRAF

headquarters as a unique partner to collaborate

with in scaling Farmer Managed Natural

Regeneration (FMNR) in vulnerable rangelands

of Uganda.

As a systematic regeneration of trees from living

tree stumps, roots and shoots , FMNR is among

the low-cost and rapid methods of environmental

restoration earmarked by agroforestry

stakeholders during a national FMNR workshop

held in Uganda between 8-10th

May, 2012 in

Kampala to achieve Evergreen Agriculture and

thus food security in Uganda. Consequently,

formalizing an MOU has been considered vital in

consolidating the collaboration among partners.

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Going to Scale: Enhancing the Adaptive Management Capacities of Rural Communities for SLM in the Highlands of eastern Africa’. An AHI-PAAP project

By Joy Tukahirwa

A planning and review workshop was

successfully held on the 22nd of June 2012 in

Kapchorwa, Uganda organized by the National

Agricultural Research Organization (NARO).

The workshop aimed at reviewing the progress

development of outcomes at landscape level

Sustainable Land Management (SLM);

identifying priorities and coming up with action

strategies for going to scale in the remaining

period and sharing and giving feedback on the

devolution process.

Kapchorwa District Local Government Natural Resources

staff contributing to the discussions during the workshop

The workshop drew 45 participants from local

researchers, farmers and policy makers. Local

government leaders from Bukwo, Kween and

Kapchorwa districts in Uganda were present.

Participants strategically discussed joint efforts

towards preparation of approval process for

district ordinance for the three districts targeting

a common Benet landscape. This was an effort

to fast track the formulation of a district

ordinance supported by Benet Bye law process.

The African Highlands Initiative (AHI) programme of ICRAF and the Policy Analysis and Advocacy Programme (PAAP) of the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA), in partnership with Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR) and the National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO) have an on-going four year project funded by IDRC with sites in Ethiopia and Uganda. NARO is the site coordinator for Uganda.

Highlights of feed plan workshops for production team and

DFBAs extension workers By Jane Kugonza

The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in

collaboration with International Livestock

Research Institute (ILRI) conducted a four day

training workshop in June 2012 to build capacity

on feed plan development for the East Africa

Dairy Development (EADD) production team

and farmer associations in the project target

sites. This training was the first in a series of

four that will be conducted in Uganda.

The EADD Project is promoting the development

of dairy hub based feed plans to enhance feed

production and alleviate dry season feed

shortages. This process involves engaging the

DFBAs and feed related stakeholders,

conducting a rapid feed assessment in hubs

using the FEAST tool. Developing work plans

with stakeholders that will guide implementation

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is the next step. The EADD then backstops the

DFBAs to implement the feed plans.

As EADD Phase? 1 draws to an end, emphasis

has been placed on developing capacity of

DFBAs, extension providers and chilling plant

managers amongst other stakeholders to assess

their feed needs and develop feed plans.

The workshop was attended by 68 participants

including dairy farmers, business farmers

association representatives, chilling plant

managers, extension providers, government

veterinary officers, farmer trainers, EADD project

production team, ICRAF dissemination

facilitators and the ILRI team.

Major outcomes from the training included

capacity building for the EADD production team

and extension workers on the use of FEAST tool

in facilitating development of site specific feed

plans. Secondly, there was dissemination and

review of already developed feed assessment

reports to actualize implementation strategies

and thirdly ten DFBA feed plans were

developed to address seasonality of feed

resources and increase milk production.

Training workshop on Capacity Needs Assessment by Strengthening Rural Institutions project

By Rick Kamugisha, Mieke Bourne, Francesca Borgia and Joseph Tanui

The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), with

support from the International Fund for

Agricultural Development (IFAD), organized a

four days Capacity Needs Assessment (CAN)

workshop for grassroots organizations and other

stakeholders in two districts of Uganda namely

Kapchorwa and Masindi from 24th – 29th June

and from 2nd

- 6th July respectively.

The CAN workshop was organized as part of the

‘Enabling rural transformation and grassroots

institutional building for sustainable land

management and increased income and food

security’ project, whose goal is to strengthen

grassroots organizations. The project has three

main objectives which are; to enhance capacity

of variants of grassroots institutions and provide

support to harness broader collective action for

rural service delivery; to improve enterprise

development within the context of conservation,

and community level asset accumulation, and

develop platforms for knowledge sharing and

scaling up. The expected project outputs include

a dynamic model for grassroots institutional

development and analysis.

A total of ten representative grassroots

organisations were selected from each district

based on group maturity, functionality, typology,

age and size, partnership levels, affiliation and

geographical location participated in the

workshop. Each organization was represented

by three members (two officials and one base

member) who participated in a series of

activities.

The organizations are primarily affiliated to two

IFAD projects (VODP and DLSP) and to the

Kapchorwa Landcare Chapter (KADLACC), a

sustainable Landcare platform.

The main objective of the workshops was to

capture the capacities and the needs in terms of

knowledge, information, skills and enabling

environment and to develop implementable work

plans at group level through a number of

participatory techniques. This integrated

development planning focused on role plays,

stakeholder identification and mapping,

dissemination and farmer learning systems,

SWOT analysis, appreciative inquiry (including

visioning and asset identification), identification

of objectives and strategies as well as gaps in

these strategies and finally monitoring and

evaluation.

The outputs generated during the workshop will

serve as a basis to build an effective and tailor-

made capacity development plan to enhance the

local grassroots organizations in the two project

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sites. These workshops followed the pilot

Capacity Needs Assessment workshop that was

conducted in Embu (Kenya) in May 2012.

A team from ICRAF (Nairobi and Uganda) with

support of the local contact persons facilitated

the workshops. This team also met with the site

steering committees to report back to the

community on progress of the project.

Workshops are planned for Bungoma, Kenya

and two sites in Tanzania before the end of

August and a Capacity Needs Assessment

manual will be refined at each workshop and will

be presented as a project output in October.

Kapchorwa group representatives Vision mapping by participants

3rd Lake Victoria Basin Stakeholders Forum

by Joy Tukahirwa

The 3rd Lake Victoria Basin Stakeholder took

place from the 26-29th June 2012 in Entebbe

Uganda. Dr. Joy Tukahirwa the ICRAF Eastern

Africa region Uganda office country

representative participated in the forum which

forms an important component in the promotion

of coordinated efforts towards sustainable

development of the Lake Victoria Basin (LVB), in

line with the Shared Vision and Strategy

Framework for management and development

of the Basin.

Some resolutions from the forum presented an

opportunity for partnership between ICRAF and

Lake Victoria Basin Commission (LVBC). These

included: 1) Promote contribution of the private

sector in supporting green economy through

appropriate laws, policies, strategies and

incentives; 2) Put in place measures to adapt to

climate variability and address various

environmental challenges in the Basin.

The Lake Victoria Basin Stakeholders Forum is

a biannual event organized by the Lake Victoria

Commission (LVC) in collaboration with partners

promoting sustainable development in the Lake

Victoria Basin. The partner categories include

relevant government institutions in the partner

States (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and

Rwanda), development partners, civil society

organization (CSO) networks, private sector

(Chamber of Commerce), faith based

organizations, research institutions and

institutions of higher learning, local government

networks, international and regional

organizations, media and cultural

groups/leaders.

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Stakeholders who participated in the workshop

Ethiopia

Revitalizing Agroforestry Research for Development (R4D)

Kiros hadgu and Jeremias Mowo, August Temu, Angela Ndanu and Vivian Atakos

The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)

organized a stakeholder’s workshop on

revitalizing agroforestry research for

development (R4D) from 2-4 July in Addis

Ababa, Ethiopia. This workshop aimed to

develop a strategy on how agricultural

institutions in Ethiopia can work synergistically to

support the country’s agricultural development

strategy, with a special emphasis on the role of

Agroforestry R4D in improving livelihoods of

smallholder farmers.

In his keynote address, the Deputy Director

General of the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural

Research (EIAR), Dr. Adugna Wakjira

expressed optimism at the ability of ICRAF to

make improvements on the widespread

traditional agroforestry practices in Ethiopia

based on ICRAF’s long history of agroforestry

research. He also saw the reopening of the

ICRAF Ethiopia country office as timely since

the Ethiopian government had shown support for

agroforestry development in the country.

Professor August Temu, ICRAF’s deputy

director general – partnerships and impact

expressed commitment to work towards

incorporating agroforestry into policy agenda in

Ethiopia. He gave the example of Kenya’s policy

of 10% tree cover on the holdings that could be

taken as a policy direction for promoting

agroforestry in smallholder agriculture in

Ethiopia.

On his part, ICRAF’s Eastern Africa regional

coordinator, Dr. Jeremias Mowo supported the

establishment of ICRAF country offices as such

offices ensure efficient coordination of ICRAF

work in a country, links ICRAF to local network

(of national organizations and donors), support

the respective country’s agroforestry strategy

and provides an effective platform for joint

scouting for funding of agroforestry R4D and

other opportunities.

During the workshop, participants agreed to

follow-up on a number of items including

analyze existing policies to identify gaps with

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Participants at the agroforestry stakeholders’ workshop in Addis Ababa, 2 - 4 July, 2012

respect to agroforestry, develop an agroforestry

strategy for Ethiopia, identify and synthesize

lessons from successful agroforestry practices

and finally to develop agroforestry coordinating

and communication mechanisms.

There are currently three on-going projects led

either by ICRAF or where ICRAF is a major

partner in Ethiopia. Of these projects, one is

confined to Ethiopia and two involve other

countries in the region.

A total of five projects (1 confined to Ethiopia

and 4 involving other countries) are up-coming

projects that will start before the end of the year.

These include the Australia Centre for

International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)

funded project on scaling up evergreen

agriculture which will involve Ethiopia and

Rwanda (Tier 1 starting August 2012) and

Burundi and Uganda in Tier 2 starting in 2013.

Two projects are currently being developed

targeting different donors. With an office in

Ethiopia, ICRAF expects to develop more

projects in collaboration with national partners

targeting both internal and external funding

sources.

Background information on this workshop is

available from:

http://www.worldagroforestry.org/sites/defa

ult/files/Revitalising%20%20Agroforestry.pdf

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Recently concluded and upcoming events

Inception workshops and launches of new projects or offices

Launch of the Kenya WASH Alliance from the 26th to 27th June 2012

Launch/opening of new office in Addis Ababa - Ethiopia during the month of August 2012

ACIAR Project Inception Workshop from the 6th -10th August 2012 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

ACIAR Project Inception Workshop from the 9th to 10th August 2012 in Kigali, Rwanda

Staff Matters

New Interns

Ruth Wanjiku Kinuthia and Vincent Rabach attached with the Evergreen Agriculture under the

supervision of Jonathan Muriuki and Mieke Bourne

George Ogaya and Cliff Mokua attached with the project on Strengthening Rural institutions

under the supervision of Joseph Tanui and Mieke Bourne

We welcome your feedback and ideas on how we can improve The Link; please send any comments to ICRAF EA Editorial team

composed of Alex Oduor, Vivian Atakos, Mieke Bourne and Ndanu via the following email address: editorial-icraf-EA@cgiar.org