SESRIC organised a training course on “The Future Prospects of Agroforestry in Sustaınable Rural Development” within the framework of the Environmental Capacity Building Programme (Environment-CaB) in Banjul, Gambia on 13-15 of December 2016.

The training course mainly focused on the following topics:

• Forestry and its prospects in Gambia
• History, definition and concept of agro-forestry
• Classification of agro-forestry systems
• Concept of sustainable forest development/growth
• Role of agro-forestry in sustainable forest development
• Benefits of agroforestry systems
• Agroforestry practices in the world
• Thematic areas for sustainable forest management
• Challenges and prospects to sustainable forest development
• Prospects of sustainable forest management in Gambia
• Deforestation a threat to mankind
• Reforestation/Afforestation a way forward to overcome deforestation

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