Certification of agroforestry tree germplasm in Southern Africa: opportunities and challenges

  • 09/04/2011

  • Agroforestry Systems

The lack of high quality agroforestry tree germplasm has long been recognized as one of the major challenges to widespread adoption of agroforestry in Southern Africa. Productivity levels realized in operational scale plantings are far less than those demonstrated in research and this has been partly blamed on the use of germplasm of unknown quality and low productivity potential.