Capacity development and education strategy 2025–2035

CIFOR-ICRAF is a global leader in research and action on nature-based solutions. CIFOR-ICRAF promotes landscape approaches and the use of trees, forests and agroforestry to address the world’s greatest challenges. Established through the 2019 merger of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and World Agroforestry (ICRAF), the organization brings together almost 50 years of expertise and a proven track record of transformative science.
The CIFOR-ICRAF 2025–2035 Strategy outlines how we translate our scientific knowledge into action: we strengthen societal capacities to shape climate solutions, restore ecosystems, enhance food systems, and improve lives and livelihoods. In doing so, we emphasize the importance of collaborative learning and capacity development to equip smallholders, young professionals, entrepreneurs and policymakers with the knowledge and skills to embrace the complex nature of today’s challenges and lead the way towards lasting change.
This formed the rationale behind the establishment of CIFOR-ICRAF’s Capacity Development and Education Hub (CDE) at the end of 2023, with the aim of supporting projects in their capacity development actions, accelerating their outcomes, and increasing our collective impact. Although CDE is still in its infancy, our ambitions for 2025–2035 are high, as expressed in our strategy presented here. This strategy is the result of a one-year process of consultation through interviews, focus group discussions, as well as online and offline workshops with representatives from across CIFOR-ICRAF.

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