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AFIP (Agroforestry Improvement Partnership Project)
Description
AFIP aims at improving the productivity of an ecosystem that supplies the rural poor with about half their requirements of food and cash. This is the homestead – the small cultivated area immediately around the house. The income is gained through agroforestry – the mixed cultivation of diverse species of trees and crops - along with the rearing of poultry and livestock.
The quality of the national stock of planting material for these species (especially fruit and timber trees) is, however, poor and deteriorating – while any improved varieties that have been developed are erratically distributed.
AFIP is supporting a national public/private initiative to establish a systematic programme of quality planting material (QPM) improvement for agroforestry species and a comprehensive distribution system for such QPM to all farmers throughout Bangladesh – and one that will guarantee the quality all down the supply chain. Its partners include the concerned research institutes and development agencies along with associations of nursery owners. AFIP provides targeted technical, institutional and financial support to this initiative that is coordinated by the stakeholders’ National Agroforestry Working Group - convened by the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council.
AFIP is one of three inter-related projects of SDC’s new Sustainable Land Use Programme in Bangladesh (see also SLU, LEAF & SAAKTI).
Local partner: Nursery associations, Bangladesh Agril. Res., Bangladesh Agril. Res. Inst., Bangladesh Forest Res. Inst., Dept. of Agril. Exten., Forest Dept., Bangladesh Agil. Univ., Chittagong Univ., BRAC, Proshika
International partner: International Centre for Research in Agroforestry/World Agroforestry Centre, CSIRO, IPGRI
Fact sheet
Type: Trust fund project
Start: 2004
End: 2010
Status: Current
Joint venture with: Not applicable
Region: South Asia
Country: Bangladesh
Working domain: Natural Resource Management
Key topic: Organisational development | Professional associations | Seed and seedling marketing | Home gardens | Fruit trees, berries, spices and herbs | Genetic improvement of trees, seed production and nurseries | Farm forestry | Human resource and institutional development | OD / ID | Capacity building
Funding source: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
Staff
Project responsible:
Responsible at Delegation/Representation: Felix Bachmann
Responsible at Head Office: Philippe Vaneberg
Contact
Address:
House 2F, NE(D), Road 73G, Gulshan-2, Dhaka 1213, Bangladesh
Phone: 00 88 02 8815688 Fax: 00 88 02 8819986
E-Mail: afip@intercooperation-bd.org
Website: www.intercooperation-bd.org/afip_details.php
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