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CIFOR–ICRAF publishes over 750 publications every year on agroforestry, forests and climate change, landscape restoration, rights, forest policy and much more – in multiple languages.

CIFOR–ICRAF addresses local challenges and opportunities while providing solutions to global problems for forests, landscapes, people and the planet.

We deliver actionable evidence and solutions to transform how land is used and how food is produced: conserving and restoring ecosystems, responding to the global climate, malnutrition, biodiversity and desertification crises. In short, improving people’s lives.

Cheikh Mbow

Professor Cheikh Mbow is the Director of Future Africa at the University of Pretoria.  He served at START-International in Washington DC and Lead Scientist at the World Agroforestry Center in Kenya. He is Adjunct Associate Professor at Michigan State University’s Department of Forestry. He worked on the development of transdisciplinary approaches to address Africa’s development challenges by establishing frameworks for thriving sustainability science to support need transformation in the continent.