Go-to expert in agroforestry
Vi Agroforestry, once just a tree planting initiative, is today an agroforestry expert organisation. We publish manuals in a handful languages, and since 2015 we coordinate a Swedish international network on agroforestry. In 2024, we launched an expert desk where we provide support, knowledge and experience regarding holistic, inclusive, and sustainable agricultural carbon projects financed by Sida. Upcoming next is that we will lead an East African expert group on dryland agroforestry during 2025 financed by SIANI.
Advocacy
We raise awareness on the many challenges we work to change on the ground. We suggest improvements and solutions and remind duty-bearers of their responsibilities. Our aim is to drive meaningful policy change so that smallholder farmers get their human rights fulfilled. For us, advocacy starts at a local level, engaging farmer groups to phrase their needs and ideas. We then use our position as an established go-to expert and actor in civil society to advocate for policy changes. For example, we have contributed to putting national policies and strategies for agroforestry in place in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. And each year we hold well-visited agroforestry learning weeks in Kenya, and agroforestry symposiums in Tanzania.