The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) is a CGIAR Consortium Research Centre. ICRAF’s headquarters are in Nairobi, Kenya, with five regional offices located in Cameroon, India, Indonesia, Kenya and Peru.
The Centre’s vision is a rural transformation in the developing world as smallholder households strategically increase their use of trees in agricultural landscapes to improve their food security, nutrition, income, health, shelter, social cohesion, energy resources and environmental sustainability.
The Centre’s mission is to generate science-based knowledge about the diverse roles that trees play in agricultural landscapes, and to use its research to advance policies and practices, and their implementation, that benefit the poor and the environment.
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Nursery management, tree propagation and marketing - 20/01/2013
Munjuga MR, Gachuiri AN, Ofori DA, Mpanda MM, Muriuki JK, Jamnadass RH, Mowo JG. 2013.Nursery management, tree propagation and marketing: A training manual for smallholder farmers and nursery operators. Nairobi: World Agroforestry Centre
Good Nursery Practices: A Simple Guide - 20/01/2008
Mbora A., Lillesø J-PB., Jamnadass R. 2008. Good Nursery Practices: A Simple Guide. Nairobi. The World Agroforestry Centre. 36 pp.
Agroforestry plays an important role in the socio–economic development of communities, as trees planted on farms provide timber, fuelwood, fodder, fruits, medicine, windbreaks, and a whole range of other economic and environmental benefits. At present the need to plant trees on farms is on the increase. It is difficult, however, for smallholders to access – at the right time, in the right quantities and of high quality – the trees that they want to plant. In order to meet present and future demand for planting material, there is a need to promote on-farm and community tree nurseries. Such nurseries can be owned and managed by individual farmers, by self-help groups, by schools, by churches and/or by a range of other local institutions. They provide income-generating opportunities, act as models for further nursery development, provide seedlings more cheaply to planters, and can raise the particular species that local people are interested in. In order for farmers and rural organisations to establish effective nurseries, it is important to provide nursery managers with the simple technical information they need for establishment and management of facilities. This is the role of this publication.
Allanblackia propagation protocol - 20/01/2008
As part of Novella Africa programme on ‘Domestication of AB Trees in Africa’, ICRAF aims to develop jointly, with national partners in participating countries, options for appropriate propagation and management practices for AB trees, to enhance the efficiency, level and stability of tree production. Its outputs are globally applicable or adaptable propagation and nursery management guidelines. It is in the context of this project that this protocol is written to give guidelines on conducts research and seedlings development activities. Allanblackia seedling industry is not well established and there is a need to organise better the overall nursery system so as to improve the availability of seedlings and promote appropriate site and species combinations. With seed propagation technique turning as difficult to implement, vegetative propagation is seen as a possibility to select superior germplasm and bring this important resource into the farmers’ fields.
The manual has been developed with input from many Allanblackia domestication persons from Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Tanzania and I thank all contributors for their efforts that have allowed me to put together this document. No thanks would be complete without recognizing Dr. Ian Dawson for tireless edited this manual. I hope that you will find it useful and I would be pleased to receive comments and suggestions to improve and revise it.
Citation :
Munjuga, M. D. Ofori, C. Sawe, E. Asaah, P. Anegbeh, T. Peprah, M. Mpanda, L. Mwaura, E. Mtui, C., Sirito, A. Atangana, S. Henneh, Z. Tchoundjeu, R. Jamnadass, and A.J. Simons. 2008. Allanblackia propagation protocol. World Agroforestry Center. ISBN 978-92-9059-231-0 https://apps.
Good Tree Nursery Practices - 19/01/1999
Good tree nursery practices for research nurseries is more than a checklist of do’s and don’t’s for nursery managers and researchers. It presents concise but thorough information on all aspects of raising high-quality planting stock, with lists of contacts and nursery suppliers. In addition to general recipes and suggestions, tips are provided for developing specific nursery approaches to cater for the diversity of tree species, locations and nursery resources available.
By producing and using better quality tree seedlings in research nurseries, the results of such research will provide maximum benefit to small-scale farmers who are planting trees. Farmers are asking for tree stock with good survival rates, fast early growth and predictability of performance. Researchers experimenting to meet these aims need to use high-quality planting materials.
Greater recognition of the role of good tree nursery practices and quality tree seedlings in ensuring sustainable and profitable agroforestry systems is needed. This manual aims to promote such recognition among researchers. A companion volume, Good tree nursery practices for community nurseries, aims to do the same among farmers, NGOs and community groups. Let us hope that they and others change the common slogan of “plant a tree” to “plant a quality seedling”.
Citation : Jaenicke, H. 1999. Good Tree Nursery Practices: Practical Guidelines for Community Nurseries. International Centre for Research in Agroforestry. SIBN 92 9059 130. https://apps.
