CGIAR Future Harvest

Agroforestry
Vision and Mission

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Vision  
The vision of the SEA regional program is that all people in the region have access to natural, social, human, financial and physical capital in ways that support their livelihood choices, respect diversity of conditions and ambitions, and maintains the resource base for future generations.

Improved rural livelihoods through good governance for  multifunctional landscapes supporting healthy farms with useful trees.
   
Governance processes for INRM
what are the existing rules and incentives for (agroforestry) land use?
how can reward structures for environmental service functions provide incentives for rural poor in ways that are transparent, fair and efficient?
how can existing capacity building at various scales and levels better prepare next generations for INRM?

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Multifunctional landscapes
how do ‘environmental service functions’ (including watershed functions and biodiversity conservation) arise in landscape mosaics that include agroforestry?
how do land use mosaics change over time under the influence of human ‘drivers’, and what does this mean for local and other stakeholders?
how can local communities build and use social capital to reduce conflicts and negotiate with external agents to increase multifunctionality of landscapes?

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Farmer's land management
what plot-level technologies are available for agroforesters/farmers to use? what input-output relations will they have?
how do farm households decide on resource allocations in land manage- ment and how can increased access to knowledge products help?
what do current and potential future farmer land management decisions mean for food sufficiency, income, sustainability and the environment?

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Trees and Markets
what trees (local, exotic, current, ‘improved’) does a farmer have to choose from? what properties do these trees have?
how do farmers get hold of quality germplasm?
how does the ‘vertical integration’ in the whole market chain feed back on farmer options and decisions?
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Mission
Our mission is to stimulate and conduct innovative research and development that sill support agroforestry, strengthen the capacity of our partners, enhance worldwide recognition of the human and environmental benefits of agroforestry, and provide scientific leadership in the field of integrated natural resources management.

WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE - SOUTH EAST ASIA
http://www.worldagroforestrycentre.org/sea