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Marita's field is near the irrigation canal, which means her field usually gets flooded when it rains a lot. The barrier helps keep the flood washing out her crops.
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Putting briquettes out to dry in Kibera, one of the poor settlements in Nairobi.
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Picking tea in the Upper Mekong.
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The Vision for Change project is helping improve cocoa productivity.
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The loss of coffe agroforestry systems could have a serious impact on biodiversity.
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Most African children need increase their fruit intake.
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Adi Gudom Landscape, Ethiopia
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Farmers tending a pepper garden in Southeast Sulawesi
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ICRAF is carrying out research on tools and approaches to land use planning which can be used to reduce carbon emissions.
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Abdul Roni is among the thousands of farmers in Sumatra to benefi t from the World Agroforestry Centre’s rubber research. He is using high-yielding rubber clones, but he still retains a variety of other tree species.
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Agustin Gonzales, a scientist at the Peruvian Amazon Research Institute (right), with Adalberto Mitidieri on the latter’s smallholding near Iquitos.
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The Novella Project has benefi ted from the partnership between the public and private sectors.
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In arid parts of India, many villagers use crop roots as cooking fuel. A carbon and livelihoods project managed by the World Agroforestry Centre is helping villagers to reduce their consumption of fuelwood.
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Camu-camu fruits contain up to 30 times more vitamin C than oranges.
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Cut-and-carry. Villagers in Guinea often feed tree leaves to their cattle.
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Christophe Kouame (left), manager of the V4C project in Côte d’Ivoire, in cocoa gardens near Soubré.
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Scientist Chrispinus Rubanza discusses herbal remedies with Kassim Haruna Kuhangaika, the chairman of the local Association of Traditional Healers in Shinyanga, Tanzania.
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Looking to the future. Certifi cation schemes, such as those managed by the Rainforest Alliance in Côte d’Ivoire, encourage cocoa farmers to protect wildlife and look after the environment.
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Plenty to smile about. Collens Mwinga and his family
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Harvesting damar resin. The damar agroforests in Sumatra are rich in wildlife.
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Thanks to the practice of farmer-managed natural regeneration, women in Dan Saga spend much less time collecting fuelwood than they used to.
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In Niger, Faidherbia trees help to increase crop yields.
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Many farmers retain or grow Faidherbia albida in their fi elds, as the tree can help to improve soil fertility and crop yields.
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Like many of his fellow farmers in Nicaragua, Félix López grazes his cattle in wooded pasture. His story is told at the end of this chapter.
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Félix Mairena López grows his coffee bushes under coconuts and other trees.
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Land clearance is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. Padre Abad, Peru.
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Lehri Lal, a farmer in Rajasthan, India, has established an orchard which will sequester carbon and provide him with fruit and an income.
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Under experimental conditions, the judicious use of small amounts of fertiliser with Gliricidia pushed yields up to 5.5 tonnes. This compared with just 1.1 tonnes on plots where maize was grown without Gliricidia or mineral fertiliser.
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Fodder crops grown in farmers’ fi elds are helping to boost milk production in East Africa.
