Vi Agroforestry (Vi-skogen)
Type of Organization: Non-governmental organization
Areas of work: Practices & Techniques, Agricultural and rural legislation, Agroforestry, Farming typologies, Food and nutrition
Region: Africa
Country: Sweden
Description:
Vi Agroforestry is a Swedish development organisation fighting poverty and climate change together. What started as a tree planting initiative in 1983, is today an agroforestry expert organisation working through local partnerships to run holistic agricultural development projects in East Africa and beyond. Vi Agroforestry supports smallholder farmer families with the aim to alleviate poverty through sustainable agricultural land management (SALM), including agroforestry. Programmes and projects are carried out by local partner organisations in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Vi Agroforestry provides expertise in agroforestry, sustainable land management, climate change resilience, adaptation and mitigation within the agricultural sector. This includes collaboration with research institutes and networks, promoting well-proven practices based on scientific research, and engaging policy- and decision-makers to take local ecological knowledge, research, and well-proven practice into consideration in agricultural policy and decisions. This is done in a manner that supports sustainable livelihoods through gender transformative approaches.
Vi Agroforestry is a Swedish development organisation fighting poverty and climate change together. What started as a tree planting initiative in 1983, is today an agroforestry expert organisation working through local partnerships to run holistic agricultural development projects in East Africa and beyond. Vi Agroforestry supports smallholder farmer families with the aim to alleviate poverty through sustainable agricultural land management (SALM), including agroforestry. Programmes and projects are carried out by local partner organisations in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Vi Agroforestry provides expertise in agroforestry, sustainable land management, climate change resilience, adaptation and mitigation within the agricultural sector. This includes collaboration with research institutes and networks, promoting well-proven practices based on scientific research, and engaging policy- and decision-makers to take local ecological knowledge, research, and well-proven practice into consideration in agricultural policy and decisions. This is done in a manner that supports sustainable livelihoods through gender transformative approaches.