What is the problem ? Agricultural practices is depleting the soil fertility and making farming unproductive.

What is the solution ? Regenerative farming , integrating trees and livestock in farming operations. Integrating trees is called agro forestry.

What is the evidence? Agroforestry has worked in Africa (Niger, Zambia), Asia (China and India), South America (Argentina) and Western nations as well.

What is the caveat? There is no one “miracle tree” and “no one miracle practice”.

It all depends on the context. Top down approaches don’t help.

What should organisations do ? NGOs and agricultural support organisations should help farmers adopt these practices.

Sections

Section 1: First 14 minutes : Getting to know Patrick and understanding all the terms.

Section 2: Next 35 minutes: about the why and the how of agro forestry.

Section 3: Last five minutes about what is not broken about the world food system

Host: Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise

www.regainparadise.org

Guest: Patrick Worms, Senior Science Policy Adviser for the World Agroforestry Centre

https://www.linkedin.com/in/pworms/

https://www.cifor-icraf.org/