Trees for a Better Life
No commentsTrees for better living -part two
(Cue in): A song from Bahati Girls’ Secondary School, Nakuru, Kenya…
Narrator: It is the opening of the second World Agroforestry Congress in Nairobi, a meeting which aims to review opportunities to influence scientific agroforestry in promoting sustainable land use worldwide.
This documentary will remind you of the opening of the congress and of the strong messages delivered by researchers and scientists.
The Kenyan Vice-President, Kalonzo Musyoka, says agroforestry offers an important opportunity. He strongly advocates changing agriculture policies to accommodate tree planting:
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Narrator: Achim Steiner is the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme – UNEP. At the opening of the Agroforestry Congress Steiner said trees have become a major part of the story now and yet we do not understand the very important role they can play:
Cue in: (Achim Steiner)
The minute we began to ………
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Narrator: The conference was full of international researchers who described the findings of studies across the world on the effect of planting trees. The key organizer of the congress is the World Agroforestry Centre whose director is Dr. Dennis Garrity:
Cue in (Garrity): In a few weeks’ time …
Cue out: …the world is now close to Copenhagen.
Narrator: Professor Wangari Maathai, a Nobel laureate, attended the opening of the Congress. She says some foreign tree species are harsh to the environment:
Cue in (Maathai): And that is why…
Cue out: ….. you have any changes in the climate
Narrator: The Nairobi Agroforestry Congress serves as a forum for agroforestry researchers, educators, practitioners and policymakers from around the world to share new research findings, lessons, experiences and ideas that will help influence decisions for better living. The 1st World Congress of Agroforestry was held in 2004 in Florida, in the United States.
Narrator: To wind up this news package, here are Bahati Girls’ Secondary from
Nakuru, Kenya, again:
