Expertise project | SILVA expertise

SILVA: both agronomic and social agroforestry expertise for development

The SILVA project is one of expertise that is built in total transparency with the sponsor and which advocates a collaborative approach to development to promote agro-sylvo-pastoral balance.

As young experts, we mobilize a scientific approach whether agronomic, ecological, social, agroforestry within agricultural development projects that aim to improve the sustainability and resilience of production systems. We aspire to develop natural, complex, carbon-positive agrarian systems that promote biodiversity.

Our team wants to understand with humility and in their complexity the interactions between the ligneous plants and the other productions, articulating an agricultural production system. We want to support and promote peasant agriculture, which creates jobs and social links, through development that is sustainable from a social, economic and environmental point of view.

Nos domaines d'expertise

Our Areas of Expertise

The SILVA project can be deployed in many areas to best meet the backer's expectations and the needs of the project:

Agroforestry: implementation of sustainable agroforestry techniques adapted to the local context, agro-sylvo-pastoralism
Forestry: conservation of tree, plant and animal species
Environment: soil conservation, water management
Development: food security, sustainable energy management
Social: structural, functional, socio-economic study of a development project, the modifications of the social structures that it entails (e.g. land issues)

Qu'est-ce que l'agroforesterie ?

What is agroforestry? Why agroforestry?

" Agroforestry is a generic term used to refer to land use systems and practices in which perennial woody plants are deliberately integrated with agricultural crops and / or livestock for a variety of benefits and services. Agroforestry ranges from very simple and sparse systems to very complex and dense systems. Agroforestry is therefore not a unique technology, but covers a general concept of trees in crop and livestock systems to achieve multifunctionality. There is no clear border between agroforestry and forestry, nor between agroforestry and agriculture. "

FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)

We understand agroforestry as a set of agricultural practices that can represent an important lever for development. Indeed, it offers many benefits for the people who work the land and fulfills many essential roles in maintaining landscapes. Agroforestry allows farmers to diversify their activities and thus their income, provides ecosystem services and facilitates complementarity between livestock and crops . Finally, these environmentally friendly practices protect the soil and renew its fertility while contributing to the improvement of biodiversity .