| Abstract: | At present ICRAF international cooperation channels the Council's contribution to efforts by national and international research institutions in both the generation of agroforestry technologies and person-power development. This paper attempts a critical evaluation of the evolutionary process that led ICRAF collaborative activities from their initial role of creating opportunities for testing methodologies to the on-going networking stage.Two stages are distinguished in the initial development phase; the one contributing to the building of an institutional capability (more  in-house cooperation), and the follow-up stage where activities were aimed at establishing a basis for continuous collaboration with partner institutions.The present networking phase, with an African focus, is based on the assumption that institutional complementarity is the appropriate scheme to overcome the effect of constraints prevailing in the continenta on the generation of appropriate agroforestry technologies. In this context, an ecozone scope, integrated planning and a network organizational structure are proposed as pillars of an ICRAF strategy to achieve complementarity in agroforestry research for development.Head, Collaborative Programmers Division, ICRAF |
