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Treesilience: An assessment of the resilience provided by trees in the drylands of Eastern Africa

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Title Treesilience: An assessment of the resilience provided by trees in the drylands of Eastern Africa
 
Creator Leeuw, Jan de
Njenga M
Wagner B
Iiyama, Miyuki
 
Subject climate
agriculture
trees
arid zones
resource management
 
Description This book is the result of a consultative process, which brought together experts from Eastern Africa and beyond to synthesize and compile existing information on the role of trees in building resilience in the region’s drylands. The group consisted of a mixture of experts with backgrounds in research, academia, government, farmers and development practitioners, and the book reflects the knowledge and perspectives of these various groups.
The book begins by describing the rationale behind the initiative followed by a clarification on the background and approach taken. Chapter three then describes the Eastern African region and argues why there is a need to build resilience in the livelihoods of communities living in drylands. Chapter four builds on this by introducing an ecosystem services perspective as the conceptual framework to explore the resilience offered by trees. Chapter five reviews the ecology, distribution and use of trees throughout the Eastern African region. Chapter six uses an ecosystem service perspective to review the various benefits that people derive from dryland trees. Chapter seven draws on experiences gained in development practices and presents and reviews 11 case studies of natural resource management. Chapter eight presents reflections of the write-shop participants on how best practice in resilience-building could be scaled up. A review of knowledge and information gaps regarding the contribution of trees in building resilience is presented in chapter nine, which is followed by a plan for possible follow-up action in chapter ten.
 
Date 2014
2014-12-16T06:37:25Z
2014-12-16T06:37:25Z
 
Type Book
 
Identifier De Leeuw J, Njenga M, Wagner B, Iiyama M, (eds.). 2014. Treesilience: An assessment of the resilience provided by trees in the drylands of Eastern Africa. Nairobi, Kenya: World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF)
978-92-9059-352-2
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/52011
http://www.worldagroforestry.org/downloads/publications/PDFs/B17611.PDF
 
Language en
 
Rights Open Access
 
Publisher World Agroforestry Centre