Best Practices Support on:

Where to plant – trees suitable for your area

Which to plant – sources of tree seeds

How to plant – good tree nursery practices

What to plant – trees suitable for your purposes

How to engage communities and scale up

The right tree for the right place

1. Trees for Products

2. Trees for Services

fruit firewood medicine income sawnwood fodder

soilfertility

carbon sequestration

soilerosion

watershedprotection

shade biodiversity

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Cameroon Uganda

Western Kenya Meru, Kenya

Woody InterventionsWoody InterventionsA. Replacement

harvest Grevillea, replant with Grevillea (improved or not)

B. Substitution

harvest Grevillea, replant with Vitex

C. Expansion

increase number of trees from 155, and increase number of species from 16, of both planted and nat. reg. trees

M. Management

better manage existing and new trees (spacing, thinning, pruning, harvesting)

Current patterns of indigenous tree diversity around Mount Kenya

Survey by Ogi et al.

250 quadrats of 50 × 100 m2 within map

279 indigenous tree species(174 species also in literature description)

Total and shared species richness between literature and current species assemblages

Potential Natural Vegetation Type

n Species total (literature)

(Based on total shared)

Species confirmed by survey

% Species total (survey)

Kulczynski ecological distance

Moist intermediate forest

57 105 51 31 61% 82 0.41

Dry Combretum 40 23 21 18 86% 108 0.45

Dry montane forest 37 91 58 31 53% 83 0.42

Moist montane forest

37 99 46 30 65% 85 MIF (dif 0.005)

Lowland Acacia-Commiphora

25 92 48 35 73% 102 0.36

Evergreen bushland 16 44 38 18 47% 52 0.47

Dry intermediate forest

15 74 49 27 55% 63 0.43

Upland Acacia 7 22 20 6 30% 35 ST (dif 0.108)

Acacia (impeded) 6 28 18 5 28% 18 UA (dif 0.042)

Semi-evergreen thicket

6 29 19 6 32% 52 DC (dif 0.233)

Tree management for timber

Timber management: thinning

Tree Species Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep

Avocado

Citrus

Parinari curatellifolia

Mangoes

Uapaca kirkiana

Strychnos cocculoides

Syzygium cordatum

Annona seneghalesis

Azanza garckeana

Flacourtia indica

Vangueria infausta

Vitex doniana

Adansonia digitata

Ziziphus mauritiana

Fruit Tree Portfolio For Fresh Fruits Year-Round

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Kontalakiti (Chichewa)

Kontalakiti iyi ndi yapakati pa olemba ntchito ndi ICRAF – The World Agroforestry Centre (olembedwa ntchito) pantchito yodzala mbande za mitengo ya m’bawa pa malo anga a panyumba pano. Ndondomeko zili m’munsizi zidzagwila ntchito pa nthawi yokwanila zaka zitatu ndipo zidzatsatidwa.

Legality, conformity, consent and contracts

Pazaka zitatu za kontalakitiyi imeneyi:

1. Olembedwa ntchito (mwinimalo) adzachita izi: 1.1 Kukonza malo ake okwanila hafu la ekala kuti adzalepo mitengo.

1.2 Kudzala mitengo ya m’bawa pamalopa pa mlingo wothithikana wokwanila

mtengo umodzi pa mamitala okwana awiri ndi theka (2.5 meters)

1.3 Kubwera ku maphunzilo azakonzedwe ka malo, madzalidwe, ndi kasamalidwe

ka mbande za mtengo wa m’bawa okonzedwa ndi bungwe la ICRAF kapena

alangizi a zaulimi

1.4 Kusamala mbande za mitengoyi pa kupalira, kutsilira ndi zina zotero monga

mmene zimafunikira kuti mbewu zikule bwino