1. Research for Development: Lessons from the field
IITA KALAMBO, BUKAVU, DR CONGO
5th June 2014
Emilie Smith Dumont
World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
2. DRC (Uvira) – TANZANIA (Kigoma) – ZAMBIA (Mpulungu)
ICRAF: SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL BACKSTOPPING
Support agroforestry interventions in the catchment
to reduce sedimentation and improve local
livelihoods
Lake Tanganyika Regional Integrated Management Program
3. ICRAF worked closely with local stakeholders to bring science into negotiations
about improving landscape management.
We also used participatory approaches to identify causes of degradation and link
these to action through capacity building and increasing technical knowledge of
rural advisory agents and farmers.
Lake Tanganyika program: Scientific support
LOCAL KNOWLEDGE SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE
CUSTOMIZED OPTIONS FOR SELECTING AND MANAGING TREES
TO FIT FARM AND LANDSCAPE NICHES
Participatory research tools Interdisciplinary systems approach
4. Lake Tanganyika program: Scientific support
Agroecological knowledge toolkit AKT5
• Analysis of degradation hotspots and site targeting from
processing satellite imagery
• Knowledge based systems tools
• Tree screening from natural vegetation maps and
agroforestry tree databases
• Information on propagation and management
5. Lake Tanganyika program: Scientific support
LOCAL KNOWLEDGE ACQUSITION
• Local understanding of erosion and land degradation
hotspots at different altitudes
• Local knowledge of trees and their utilities
• Preferences for tree species and planting practices in
different landscape niches
• Knowledge gaps (e.g. propagation of native species)
6. LES ARBRES UTILES
POUR LE BASSIN DU LAC TANGANYIKA
Customised extension material
(Manuals, Best practices guidelines, Tree
selection and management toolkit)
Training for capacity building and
learning
Lake Tanganyika program: Technical support
7. • 27 community based nurseries (12 in remote parts of the
catchment
• Between 2011 and 2013 over two million trees were planted
in fields, erosion prone areas, along riverbanks and
headwaters and around homesteads
• 18 exotic tree species provided by the project, local farmers
collected and raised propagules of 16 native tree species
themselves from cuttings, wildlings and seeds
• Numerical dominance of exotic species but also 25.000 fruit
trees and over 85.000 native trees)
• Almost a thousand individual households (970) and 31
community groups collected tree seedlings from nurseries
Project results: Tree diversity
Combining local and scientific knowledge to explore options for sustainable catchment
management led to widespread adoption of a suite of agroforestry interventions to
control erosion, improve soil fertility and meet a range of household needs.
Map and data: Pacifique Mugaruka Ntabaza (WWF, 2013)
8. Project results: Tree diversity
By working closely with farmers and integrating local knowledge in the tree selection
process, the project managed to promote species diversity in locally run nurseries that led to
the rediscovery of the value of many native tree species
9. Lessons learnt
• Conventional approaches to promoting agroforestry have tended to focus on a few,
largely exotic tree species.
• The more sophisticated methods employed here, were not only successful in
promoting diversity but were also effective at grassroots level because they were
easy to use in the field and provided farmers with customized advice relevant to
their needs and context.
• The program came to an end in 2013 but we are working to consolidate further
research for impact evaluation through new funding
• Transfer of experience to WWF Goma
10. In 2014, ICRAF started a new collaboration with WWF Goma in the development and
management of agroforestry plantations in the Eco-makala program. The aim is to look at
tree species diversification for ecosystem services provision
DIRECTIVES ET FORMULAIRE DE DEMANDE
Thierry Lusenge
26 février 2014
Transfer of experience to the Forests and
Climate Change in the Congo Project