European Tropical Forest Research Network

Rehabilitation of degraded lands in Sub-Saharan Africa

Organising institutions

• IUFRO - Special Programme for Developing Countries (IUFRO-SPDC)
• Viikki Tropical Resources Institute (VITRI)
• World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
• Kenya Forest Research Institute (KEFRI)
• International Institute for Environment and Development

Other links

• ETFRN topic page on Agroforestry
• ETFRN links page on Africa
• ETFRN links page on Arid and Semi Arid Areas (drylands)
• Links and publications on trees outside forests by Ronald Bellefontaine
• IPGRI Regional Office for Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA)
• Comité Permanent Inter Etats de Lutte Contre la Sécheresse dans le Sahel (CILSS)
• The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)
• InterGovernmental Authority on Developement (IGAD)
• Southern African Development Community (SADC)
• African Development Bank
• ARIDnet
• CIFOR review of Forest Rehabilitation Initiatives
• Adaptive Strategies for Sustainable Livelihoods in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) Project by the IISD
• drylandscope.org: A web platform and open information source on regeneration of degraded drylands

FAO websites and publications on conservation agriculture

• Soil Productivity Improvement through Farmer Field Schools, FAO
  This address is the entry point for much information on farmers' field schools for soil productivity improvement.
• Intensifying Crop Production with Conservation Agriculture , FAO
  Many references to conservation agriculture; also a list of web addresses of many other groups active in conservation agriculture in different countries.
• The FAO portal to conservation agriculture
• Conservation Agriculture Case studies in Latin America and Africa
• Land and Water On-line Documents Database
  Downloadable documents on conservation agriculture
• FAO - Trees outside forests