The document for training of trainers on agroforestry focuses on curriculum preparation in Indonesia, and specifically on increasing the income of family farmers from their kebun (housegarden or pekarangan). It offers a ToT roadmap, and its curriculum should be seen as a living document with a foreseen training time of 4 months.The document is structured on five closely interrelated core training themes: agroforestry nurseries and planting; kebun management and improvement; training facilitation and networking; field school management and agroecosystems and watershed management. Overall, the learning process in the curriculum follows a progression from smaller to larger in physical scale, from the nursery, to the kebun, to the village and market. Diagnostic tools and special topics are introduced, covering the growth of bamboo clumps, insect zoo, age determination, pruning and disbudding, morphology, value chains, seedling and trenching and mulching.
“We realized that we need to work together, and are now seeing changes happen” said Omar Ali, President of the newly formed Shibganj Mango Association. Farmers and orchard owners saw the need to change when interest in mango production grew...
Participation of actors is essential for achievement of the United Nation’s (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With respect to sustainable agriculture the UN has introduced a collaborative framework for food systems transformation encompassing: 1) food system champions identification; 2) food...
This manual sets out the steps to guide rural advisory and agricultural extension workers to successfully integrate trees in rice-field and associated farms and landscapes using practical tools for implementing agroforestry practices on farms in Southeast Asia. Developed in collaboration...
LenCD has prepared a joint statement on results and capacity development (presented in this publication), which stresses that meaningful, sustainable results are premised on proper investments in capacity development and that these results materialize at different levels and at different...
The private sector’s presence in agricultural advisory services worldwide has been on the increase for over three decades. This trend has also been observed in the Mantaro Valley (Peru), in a context of dairy family farming. The objective of the...