This paper presents a review of agroforestry in Africa from a gender perspective. It examines
women's participation relative to men and the challenges and successes they experience …

Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) provide material subsistence and cash income to
millions of rural people, particularly in less developed countries. This paper offers a …

Abstract The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of the United Nations (UN) are at the
heart of the global development agenda. This chapter examines the role of agroforestry …

This article challenges the pervasive view that commercialisation of non‐timber forest
products can (easily) achieve ecosystem and species conservation as well as improving …

We execute tree 'domestication'as a farmer-driven and market-led process, which matches
the intraspecific diversity of locally important trees to the needs of subsistence farmers …

Agroforestry tree domestication emerged as a farmer-driven, market-led process in the early
1990s and became an international initiative. A participatory approach now supplements the …

The contribution that domesticated indigenous fruit trees make to many farmers' livelihoods
is often not acknowledged in either national-or international-level poverty reduction …

Climate change adaptation and mitigation are usually the objects of separate projects, but in
this review we argue that in agricultural contexts, there are often technical and financial …

Cocoa agroforests are a common farming system in the humid zone of West and Central
Africa, in which forest trees provide shade and other environmental services as well as …

This study obtained quantitative data on fruit and nut traits from two indigenous fruit trees in
West Africa (Irvingia gabonensis and Dacryodes edulis), which have led to the identification …