Who will feed the world? The production challenge
L. Wegner and G. Zwart, 2011.
Oxfam, Oxford. 65 pages.
Small is successful: Creating sustainable livelihoods on ten acres or less
Ecological Land Co-operative, 2011.
ELC, London. 48 pages.
Collaborative change: A communication framework for climate change adaptation and food security
Mario Acunzo and Maria Protz, 2010.
Communication for Sustainable Development Iniative (CSDI), FAO, Rome. 42 pages.
Guidelines for spate irrigation: Irrigation and drainage paper 65
F. van Steenbergen, P. Lawrence, A. Mehari Haile, M. Salman and J.M Faurès, 2010.
FAO, Rome. 233 pages.
Land deals in Africa: What is in the contracts?
L. Cotula, 2011.
IIED, London. 49 pages.
Food sovereignty: Reconnecting food, nature and community
A. Desmarais, N. Wiebe and H. Wittman (eds.), 2010.
Food First Books, Oakland. 224 pages.
More on trees
There is a forest of information available on trees. The ICRAF website contains country specific as well as globally relevant publications such as “Creating an evergreen agriculture in Africa for food security and environmental resilience” (2009) and “Trees on farm: Analysis of global extent and geographical patterns of agro-forestry” (2009). The websites of Trees for the Future and Agroforestry.net also have plenty of resources about trees. CIFOR’s website also has a section on smallscale and communal forestry management; the UN has a section dedicated to the international year of forests, while the Global Forest Coalition takes a more people-oriented perspective towards forests. Recent publications of note include “The state of the world’s forests 2011” (FAO, 2011) and “How communities manage forests: Selected examples” (FORZA, 2010), which look at forests and livelihoods. We found two books that examine the factors that influence the adoption of agroforestry: “Seeing beyond fertilizer trees” (Kiptot, 2007) and “The impact of agroforestry-based soil fertility replenishment practices on the poor in Western Kenya (Place et. al., 2005). On a different theme, “REDD: A casebook of on-theground experience” (N. Virgilio and S. Marshall, 2010) and “REDD: The realities in black and white” (Friends of the Earth, 2010), both evaluate REDD in detail. More academic papers can be found in the Advancements in Agroforestry Series and in the Agroforestry Systems Journal.
