This National Agroforestry Strategy (2025-2035) provides a vital framework for guiding the implementation of agroforestry in Kenya to promote sustainable land use, enhance provision of ecosystem services, and improve the livelihoods of all Kenyans, and thus enhance agroforestry development across the country. Particularly, the Strategy aims to: 1) promote awareness creation and enhance coordination of agroforestry development in the country through harmonisation of legal and institutional frameworks both at national and county levels, and through establishment of robust partnerships; 2) increase investments and financing for agroforestry development in the country; 3)strengthen research, technology development, innovation and knowledge management in agroforestry; 4) create incentive frameworks to strengthen agroforestry-based value chains, support agroforestry-related ecosystem services, and increase private sector participation in agroforestry; 5) improve community livelihoods resilience to climate change through agroforestry; 6) create an enabling living environment for increased participation of women, children, youth and marginalised groups in agroforestry development. The Strategy develops its actions and measures around the following six thematic areas: policy and legal framework; investment and financing; education, research and knowledge management; agroforestry value chains development; climate change actions; gender, youth and social inclusion. The Strategy develops agroforestry value chains through the production and supply of quality germplasm of diverse forest species; the increasing awareness on the value of agroforestry ecosystem services; the promotion of fuelwood and biomass energy value chain; the certification of seed sources; the production of high-value timber; the improvement of technologies for sustainable production and utilisation of biomass energy; the sustainable land use management and the safeguarding of the integrity of the country's agro-ecological landscape. The Strategy defines the following relevant terms: agro ecological zone; biodiversity; biodiversity conservation; climate action; climate change; climate smart agriculture; degraded land; desertification; economies of scale; ecosystem services; ecosystem conservation; ecotourism; environmental health; food and nutrition security; greenhouse gases; gender; incentives; innovation; indigenous knowledge; land degradation; land tenure; marginalised groups; payment for ecosystem services; soil health; subsidy; vulnerable group.
Kenya · 2025-09-17