World Agroforestry Centre, (known as the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, ICRAF), is an international institute headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya and founded in 1978. The Centre specializes in the sustainable management, protection and regulation of tropical rainforests and natural reserves. It is one of the 15 agricultural research centers that make up the global network known as CGIAR. The center conducts research in agroforestry with a focus of its research in countries/regions in the developing world in six eco-regions: across sun-Saharan Africa (eastern, southern, western and central) in South and Southeast Asia, and Latin America. Researchers from the Centre have been evaluating and promoting the use of fertilizer trees and shrubs since the late 1980s through the collaboration of researchers from World Agroforestry Center and forestry institutions in Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe and have recorded success stories in all the countries involved with notable increase in agricultural yields along with the added benefits of Evergreen Agriculture. The Evergreen Agriculture research at the Centre is headed by Dr. Dennis Garrity, the UN Drylands Ambassador and Senior Fellow at World Agroforestry Centre.
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