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RELMA in ICRAF

For more than two decades, the Regional Land

Management Unit (RELMA) promoted various

technologies and approaches aimed at decreasing

poverty and enhancing food security in eastern and

southern Africa. After three years operating as a project

within the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), RELMA was

closed in December 2006.

It is hoped that RELMA's approach, experience and knowledge --

highlighted in the RELMA review series below -- will persist in the individual

and institutional memories of its hundreds of partners and clients, to which we are very grateful.

Finally, we wish to acknowledge the substantial contribution of RELMA staff over the years and

the generous support of the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida), which made

RELMA possible.

Chin Ong

RELMA Project Manager

28 March 2007

RELMA Review Series

Policy Briefs

Charcoal Policy Brief

Contract Farming

Livestock in land Management

Eucalyptus Policy Brief

Strengthening Organizations

Watershed Management

Improving Land management

Rain Water Harvesting

Relma Approaches

East Africa's Charcoal trade

Working Papers

Issue 1 : RELMA Overview · Contact: Chin Ong (c.ong@cgiar.org)

This brief provides an overview of RELMA's history and legacy, focusing on publications and

core approaches, including networking and capacity building.

Issue 2 : Rainwater Harvesting · Contact: Maimbo Malesu (M.Malesu@cgiar.org)

This brief takes a close look at how and why rainwater harvesting is catching on across Africa,

and introduces a new continent-wide decision-making tool to help policy makers quickly and

easily identify appropriate RWH interventions.

Issue 3 : Conservation Agriculture · Contact: Maimbo Malesu (M.Malesu@cgiar.org)

This brief describes an African-style CA, developed by RELMA and its partners, that is aimed

at increasing water use efficiency, rather than maintaining soil cover. Farmer education and

training is helping this new technique to catch on across eastern and southern Africa.

Issue 4 : Livestock & Land Management · Contact: Aichi Kitalyi (a.kitalyi@cgiar.org)

This brief examines RELMA's efforts, building on traditional knowledge systems, to identify and

develop a role for livestock keeping in poverty reduction and sustainable land management

strategies.

RELMA Publications

RELMA produced more than 75 publications, including well-known agroforestry extension

resources and guides to useful trees and shrubs, which will be available on the RELMA publications archive.

Technical manuals on rainwater harvesting and irrigation can be downloaded from

the Southern and Eastern Africa Rainwater Harvesting Network (Searnet) website.