The Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) Strategy 2025– 2035 charts a bold and transformative course to harness the power of trees, forests, and agroforestry landscapes in addressing today’s most pressing planetary challenges. Rooted in rigorous science and strengthened by partnerships, this strategy sets out how we will translate knowledge into action and enable science to learn from action, shaping climate solutions, restoring ecosystems, strengthening food systems, and improving lives and livelihoods.
Vision
Thriving landscapes where people prosper and nature flourishes.
Mission
We transform our science into action to unlock the power of trees, forests and agroforestry landscapes for planetary health and human well-being.
Our network
The entities of the CIFOR-ICRAF network reinforce and advance our shared aim to unlock the potential of trees and forests to combat global crises. As the leading global movement on sustainable landscapes, the Global Landscapes Forum has connected 1.5 billion people, from remote Indigenous communities to large multilateral donors. Resilient Landscapes is fast becoming the nexus between science and businesses, finance, governments and civil society. And the Global Partnership for Forests, Trees and Agroforestry has entered a new phase of collaboration.
Our history
Born of the merger of the most trusted research organizations on forests and trees – the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and World Agroforestry (ICRAF) – CIFOR-ICRAF harnesses more than 75 years of combined expertise and extensive partnership networks across Africa, Asia and Latin America.
In December 2021, CIFOR and ICRAF completed a three-year programmatic and operational merger process. While maintaining separate legal entities, CIFOR-ICRAF now operates under a single governing Board and single leadership team, with a joint regional structure and five joint research themes, all guided by the CIFOR-ICRAF Strategy 2020–2030. The functional merger brings together more than 75 years of combined expertise, over 800 staff working in 60 countries across the Global South, offices in 27 countries, 14 host country agreements, nearly 200 active partnerships, and intellectual assets published in some 25,000 research products. CIFOR and ICRAF are CGIAR Research Centers.
Innovations
We deliver game-changing solutions to global and
national challenges through three innovative approaches:
