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ANAFE is evaluated
During the months of June, July and
August 2006, ANAFE was evaluated by
two consultants, Ms. Melinda Cuéllar of
Orgut Company in Sweden (Team Leader)
and Dr. Zewge Teklehaimanot of the
University of Wales Bangor U.K. The
evaluators visited several institutions in
Mali, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Malawi
and Zambia. They also reviewed a large
volume of reports and teaching manuals.
Their draft final report was presented to the
Board of ANAFE and ICRAF Management
on 18th August 2006. The Board was
satisfied that the report is a good
representation of the status of ANAFE. A
final report was produced and shared
with members of ANAFE. The final report
is posted at ANAFE website: http://www.
anafeafrica.org
Volume 12.2 December 2006
Teaching manuals finalised
As part of our efforts to finalise the teaching manuals we have worked on for some time
now, ANAFE has invited some educators to work intensively in editing final submissions
of materials for production and circulation. The following list of teaching manuals is now
available to ANAFE members in soft and hard copies. They are also posted at the ANAFE
website as PDF (Acrobat) files which may be downloaded free of charge. Members are
encouraged to access the teaching resources and to share. For comments please contact
the authors or the ANAFE secretariat.
ANAFE Charter refreshed
At its 20th meeting, the Board of ANAFE reviewed the charter to incorporate articles that
would ensure effectiveness, efficiency, transparency and sustainability of the network.
The refreshed Charter will also enable ANAFE to be registered in African countries as
an international NGO; as ANAFE acquires a legal personality. In the picture, Oraro and
Company Lawyers, Mr. Chacha Odera and Ms. Joyce Oduor, and University of Nairobi
Professor of Law Francis Situna advise the board of ANAFE.
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Agroforesty
Education News
ANAFE Alumni Excel
ANAFE is currently conducting a tracer
study to establish the whereabouts
and current employment of its alumni.
Some data flowing in show interesting
developments! The majority is working
in agricultural and forestry development
activities. However, the job areas
cover a very wide range of disciplines,
including politics.For instance, in Malawi,
honourable Bilton Kutsaira was until
recently a member of parliament. He has
now risen to a ministerial position. In
Senegal, honourable Yaye Kène GASSAMA
DIA who was teaching Agroforestry in
the Département de Biologie Végétale,
Université Cheikh Anta (UCAD) in Dakar, is
now a Minister, responsible for Science and
Technology. We congratulate everyone for
the achievements they are making. Please
send information about any ANAFE alumni
you know. We would like to publish the
full report in a future issue of Agroforestry
Education News.
1. Professor Gerard Monela of Sokoine
university of Agriculture is now
the Vice Chancellor of the same
University
2. Professor James Kiyiapi of Moi
University in Kenya is now Permanent
Secretary for the Ministry of
Environment and Natural Resources
3. Prof Labode Popoola of the
Department of Forestry Ibadan
University in Nigeria has been
appointed Director of postgraduate
studies at the same university
4. Prof Eric Koech of Moi University in
Kenya is now Dean of the Natural
Resources
5. Dr Moses Adedire of Federal
University of Agriculture, Abeokuta in
Nigeria ns now an Associate professor
of forestry
6. Ms Marie Louis Avana of the
University of Dschang has
successfully defended her PhD thesis
and will soon graduate.
We congratulate all of them for the
achievements. We are sure that there are
many more milestones which have not
been communicated. Please reach us as
soon as they happen!
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Marie Louise Tientcheu Avana (RAFT Chair
for African Humid Tropics) and August Temu
(ANAFE Executive Secretary) represented
ANAFE at a SEANAFE Board meeting held
at Los Baños (Philippines) 22 – 24 August
2006. Among other benefits, the following
were agreed:
• ANAFE and SEANAFE websites will be
linked to benefit members of the two
networks
• The two networks will work together to
implement the international workshop on
Forestry Education planned for May 2007
(see separate article on this)
• Both networks will share databases
and experiences and intensify efforts
to improve grassroots ownership of the
networks, for sustainability
• A partnership to establish Africa
Southeast Asia Natural Resources
Education Collaboration will be
considered
• SEANAFE will participate in the
International Symposium on Agroforestry
Education being organized by Chancellor
College and Bund Colleges of Agriculture
in Malawi in July 2007. (see separate
article on this).
Dear Members,
So far it has been quite simple and free
to become a member of ANAFE. Over
the years, we have attracted 127 member
institutions in 34 African Countries. As
ANAFE matures and grows into a world
class network, it is imperative that our
standards are maintained and enhanced.
To run an efficient secretariat, and to
maintain our website and newsletter, we
need core resources. It is therefore time
members increased their stakes by making
financial contributions to the network. This
will deepen our aspiration of making the
network grassroots owned and managed. It
is against this background that the Board
at its 18th Meeting held at the University of
Ghana, Legon discussed the introduction of
an annual fee for members. The fees will be
used for the purposes identified above, and
also to support network databases which
will be shared with all members. Payment
arrangements will be flexible with respect
to currency and processes involved. The
Secretariat will make a formal contact
with your institution and provide further
information in a letter, but for the time
being, we invite all members to comment
on this approach.
We look forward to your acceptance.
Dr. John Kaboggoza
Chair – ANAFE Steering Committee
Mr. Per Rudebjer who served ANAFE for
just over 3 years up to 4th October 1996
joined ICRAF again in 1999 and helped
to establish SEANAFE. After seven very
successful years of SEANAFE is flourishing
network. Per’s contribution has been
enormous in terms of vision, strategy as
well as resource mobilization. He left
SEANAFE on 31st August 2006 to join the
Bioversity International (formally IPGRI) as
Scientist, Capacity Development Research
and Support Unit. His address is Bioversity
International, via dei Tre Nenari 427/A
0057 Maccarese (Fiumicion) Rome, Italy,
Tel: [phone], Email: p.rudebjer@
cgiar.org . ANAFE wishes Ms. Rudebjer all
the best at Bioversity International. In his
new position he will maintain good links
with ANAFE and SEANAFE.
Chair’s Corner
Member contributions to
sustain ANAFE
Representation at SEANAFE Board
Per Rudebjer Leaves
Milestones
Jesus Fernandez is
a new Coordinator
of SEANAFE
Following the departure of Per
Rudebjer, Dr. Jesus Fernandez has
been appointed to lead the SEANAFE
network. With basic qualifications
in development communication and
a PhD in Community Development
(2001) Dr. Fernandez has experience in
networking, capacity building and cross-
cultural relations management. He can
be reached through [e-mail]
A worthy visitor
Mrs Ufoo Lema is a senior lecturer
at Olmotonyi Forestry Institute in
Arusha, Tanzania. She is also the chair
of Tz-NAFT, the Tanzania chapter of
ANAFE. She visited ANAFE at ICRAF
headquarters in Nairobi to exchange
ideas and also to benefit from the ICRAF
library. In this picture, she (on the left)
poses with the evaluator of ANAFE, Ms
Melinda Cuéllar just after sharing her
perspectives with her. On the right is Ms
Rita Mulinge who backstops the ANAFE
Secretariat. Olmotonyi forestry Institute
is well known for its superb integration
of farming systems and especially
agroforestry and fisheries into the forestry
curriculum. Their practical training
facilities include a prolific fishpond
under the management of Mrs Lema.
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It is of special interest to understand
the reasoning behind ANAFE’s interest
in HIV/AIDS curriculum. It is already
well established that food and nutrition
can reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS. For
communities that depend on agriculture
for their livelihood, an increase in the
incidence of HIV/AIDS has immediate
impact on, among others, the availability
of labour for agricultural activities. This
leads to a cyclic effect where food
production is diminished, causing hunger
and malnutrition due to less calorie intake
and weak vitamin and mineral content
in the food (due to reduced diversity
of food available). On the other hand,
reduced vitamin and mineral intake tends
to increase the severity of the condition,
and vulnerability of infected persons to
opportunistic diseases causing HIV infection
to quickly progress to AIDS, any succumb.
This sets off another series of problems,
as families and communities incur costs
of treating the sick, eventual burials and
subsequent care of orphans. All these
draw further on their meagre resources
agriculture, in both financial and labour
aspects. Thus, HIV/AIDS infected and
affected families tend to grow poorer and
poorer.
To date, there is no known cure for
HIV/AIDS. Efforts are thus focused on
prevention of infection and management
of the condition. Through Agroforestry
research, ICRAF and others have shown that
it is possible to slow down the progression
of HIV/AIDS, through reduction of labour
requirements for farming communities,
provision of highly nutritive products for
HIV/AIDS infected and affected people, and
also through other solutions as indicated
below:
These Agroforestry solutions fit quite
well into a broader perspective on how
agriculture could play a role in solving the
HIV/AIDS crisis. ANAFE has developed
a curriculum for students of agriculture
and natural resources in order to enable
universities and colleges to play their role in
combating HIV/AIDS.
Agroforestry action area Effect on HIV infected
persons
Effect on HIV affected
persons
Enhanced use of nitrogen fixing
trees to improve soil fertility
Reduced input into farming improved food
security
Domestication and intensified
cultivation of trees and shrubs to
produce nutritious fruits, roots,
berries, and leaves
A boost to immune
system thus reducing
vulnerability to
opportunistic
infections
Reduced demand from
support to infected
relatives and friends
Intensified cultivation of
medicinal plants
Access to medicines
for primary care
Reduced medical bills
Intensified cultivation of locally
available high energy foods
Slower progression
HIV to AIDS
Reduced need for care of
the infected
Promotion of methods of food
preservation
Regular availability of
nutritive foods
Reduced food bills for
food
Cultivation of trees and shrubs
that span and produce during the
dry seasons
Reduced susceptibility to hunger and nutritional
insecurity, and reduced labour demand
Zero tillage systems Significant reduction of labour needs
BASIC initiative
Marketing of the BASIC initiative continues
with Forum for Agricultural Research in
Africa (FARA) leading the effort. There is a
high probability that the programme will be
formally launched this year. Meanwhile, FARA
has mobilized funds to for a capacity building
project dubbed SCARDA Strengthening
capacity for agricultural research and
development in Africa, with DFID support.
ANAFE is a partnering with FARA in the
implementation of this project. Details will be
worked out in February 2007. Colleges and
universities which registered for BASIC are
encouraged to remain in touch and will soon
be contacted.
The nexus between agroforestry
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ANAFE has locally contextualized
learning resources!
In the course of the year 2006, ANAFE has supported the finalization of learning
manuals and books written by nationals of SSA countries. The biggest challenge was
to secure quality editing and subsequent publishing. Table below shows our list of
books, manuals and curricula which can be downloaded fro the ANAFE website,
List of Learning Materials
Learning resources developed by ANAFE
Books and manuals: French Titles
Authors/contributors Title
1. Dr Samba A. Ndiaye
Samba, Dr Maguette
Kaïre
L’agroforesterie à l’école au Sahel: Guide Pratique
du formateur (Agroforestry in schools in the Sahel: A
practical guide for trainers)
2. Birahim Fall, Idrissa
Hamidou, N’Tio
Niamaly, Kardigué
Coulibaly, Chantal
Kabore-Zoungrana,
Malick Lalji Sylla
Manuel D’agroforesterie a L’intention des
establissements D’ensignment superieur du Sahel
(Agroforestry manual for students of higher education)
3. Abdoulaye N’Diaye,
N’Tio Niamaly,
Kardigué Coulibaly,
Idrissa Sanogo,
Aboubakar Maïga and
Konongolo Coulibaly .
Manuel D’agroforesterie pour la formation des agents
techniques (Manual for training extension agents in
Agroforestry)
4. Yossi H, Kaya B, Traore
CO, Niang A, Butare
I, Levasseur V, and
Sanogo D.
Les Haies Vives au Sahel (The live hedges of the Sahel)
5. Therese Fouda
Moulende
Aspects socio-economiques de l’agroforesterie
au Cameroun (Some socio-economic Aspects of
agroforestry in Cameroon)
6. Kamga André and
Dondjang Jean Paul
La culture en couloirs a base de Calliandra calothyrsus
meissner dans la province de l’Ouest Cameroun : une
option technologie pour agriculture durable (Farming
with Calliandra calothyrsus in west Cameroon : An
option for sustainable Agriculture)
Books and manuals: English titles
Authors/contributors Title
7. Girma Hailu Ill health in Agroforestry: A challenge in scaling up
Agroforestry Innovations
8. Temu A, Chakeredza
S, Mogotsi K, Munthali
D and Mulinge R (Eds)
Rebuilding Africa’s Capacity for Agricultural
Development
9. Kay Muir-Leresche Improving Approaches for Effective Teaching and
Learning
10. Wilson Kasolo and
August Temu
Tree Domestication for Buffer zone Agroforestry
(Enhancing the conservation potential of Agroforestry
for threatened resources)
11. Walter Adongo and
Philip Henry Obade
Integrating agroforestry examples into
the teaching of Mathematics and English
in primary schools
12. B.O. Owuor, D.
Kamoga, J. Kung’u and
G.N. Njoroge
Some medicinal trees and shrubs of Eastern Africa for
sustainable utilisation and commercialisation
13. Sebastian Chakeredza
(Ed) contributions from
21 universities in SSA
Agroforestry Training at Postgraduate Level in Sub-
Saharan Africa: Solutions to Challenges in Curriculum
Delivery
SEANAFE
represented at
ANAFE Board
Dr Suhardi represented SEANAFE at the 20th
meeting of ANAFE Board and presented a
report whose highlights were:
• Good progress is being made in
the implementation pf phase 2 of
SEANAFE support from Sida. In This
phase, emphasis has been put on
policy analysis, landscape aspects
of Agroforestry and marketing of
Agroforestry tree products.
• Collaboration has started between
SEANAFE and Regional Community
Forestry Training Centre (RECOFTC)
and South East Asia Regional Center
for Graduate Study & Research in
Agriculture (SEARCA)
• A new project coordinator, Mr Jesus
Fernandez has been recruited to
replace Per Rudebjer who left ICRAF on
31st October 2006. ANAFE welcomed
Jesus Fernandez.
• Indonesia has elected Dr Suhardi as the
Chair of iNAFE, the Indonesian chapter
of SEANAFE. Board congratulated him.
• International Partnership for Forestry
Education (IPFE): SEANAFE has agreed
to participate in the preparations of the
global workshop on Forestry education.
ANAFE Board welcomed this strong
partnership in our common interest.
Dr Suhardi also presented a series of
slides on his work in the development
of agroforestry to mitigate the effects of
tsunami. He was able to demonstrate that
treed landscapes suffered less from the
effects of tsunami.
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ANAFE Research Fellowships 2006-2007
Eastern and Central Africa
Name Degree Gender Title University Nationality
1. Mehari
Alebachew Tesfaye
MSc M Study of indigenous Agroforestry Practices
in selected Woredas of Awi Zone (Dangila,
Banjashukudad, and Enjibara Woredas) of
Amhara Regional State
Addis Ababa University Ethiopia
2. Rebecca
Ngumburu
PHD F Floral Biology and Pollination of Highland coffee
(Coffee Arabica) in Kiambu District
Jomo Kenyatta University
of Agriculture and
Technology
Kenya
3. Jennifer Jerotic
Rono
MSc F Establishment Techniques of promising MPTs in
the Drylands: A case of Nyando District, Kenya
Moi University,
Chepkoilel Campus
Kenya
4. Jeffard Njeru
Rithaa
MSc M Developing protocol for conservation of
indigenous fruit trees in Meru South District
Egerton University Kenya
5. Cecilia Wachera
Kioria
MSc F Contribution of wild food plants to household
food security of communities living around
Arabuko Sokoke Forest, Kilifi District of Kenya
Kenyatta University Kenya
6. Stephen Ichami
Muhati
MSc M Development of a new method for determination
of soil extractable phosphorus and potassium
using infrared spectroscopy
University of Nairobi Kenya
7. Godeberthe
Nkeshimana
MSc F Rill and Interill erosion assessment under coffee
plantation: A case study of hilly soils of Rwanda’-
Research area in Rwanda farmers fields”.
Wageningen University Rwanda
8. Joseph Jones
Ogwal
MSc M Ecology and utilization of the Cycad
(Encephalartos hilderbrandtii) along River
Mpanga, Western Kenya
Makerere University Uganda
9. Robooni
Tumuhimbise
MSc M Prospects and constraints to sustainable Cocoyam
production under various Agroforestry systems in
Lake Victoria Basin, Uganda
Makerere University Uganda
14. Sara Namirembe, Joseph Obua, Philip
Nyeko, Peter Ndemere and Susan
Tumwebaze
Agroforestry for Development in Uganda: A synthesis
15. ANAFE members. (Wilson Kasolo and A
Temu (Eds)
Agroforestry for improved livelihoods and natural resources conservation:
An Agroforestry Policy Brief
16. Temu AB, Mwanje I. and Mogotsi K. Improving agriculture and natural resources Education in Africa: A stitch
in time
17. Anne Munene Climate change - Making Facts Known: an annotated list of the Impacts
of climate change
Compact Discs
1. ANAFE RAFT Sahel Technologies agroforestèries au Sahel
2. Charles Ssekabembe The Tenets of Agroforestry
Curriculum guides
3. Rudebjer PG, Temu AB and Kung’u J. Developing Agroforestry Curricula: A practical guide for academic
institutions in Africa and Asia
4. FAO and ANAFE Tree seed education at agricultural and forestry colleges in Eastern and
Southern Africa
5. ANAFE members HIV/AIDS curriculum for agriculture and natural resource students
6. FAO, ANAFE and SEANAFE Forestry Education in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia: Trends,
myths and realities
7. Chakeredza (Ed). A joint product of 21
universities
Evaluation of Agroforestry in Postgraduate Curricula: Lessons from 12
years of ANAFE support to Universities in Sub-Saharan Africa
8. Temu and Chakeredza (Eds). A joint product
of universities and colleges in Mali and
Malawi
Farmer Learning Resource Centre: Lessons Learnt in Southern Africa
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