eAgroforestry - Food security and livelihood improvement through agroforestry

Agroforestry systems have huge potential to increase food security and add additional income to rural communities, while reducing soil erosion and other land degradation. This applies also for the three partner countries of this project – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. 

Against this background, the project had five main objectives: 

(1) Compile the knowledge from literature about the major agroforestry systems of Central Asia, which includes their development, positive and negative effects on yields, income, and resilience; 
(2) Investigate the products, their yields, value chains, and current as well as potential income from the main agroforestry tree species; 
(3) explore potential local and regional value chains based on wood and other products form those agroforestry systems; 
(4) investigate yields and income from major crops and livestock from inside versus outside of agroforestry systems; 
(5) investigate the perspective of land users on agroforestry