Ramni Jamnadass

World Agroforestry (ICRAF)

Leader, Tree Productivity and Diversity

Description

Dr. Ramni H. Jamnadass is a Kenyan lady driven to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers and other poor communities through applied agroforestry research, she has great passion in building capacities of national institutes, with a special focus on empowering women. Her leadership and commitment to advanced use of genetic resources beyond conservation has led to successful public-private partnerships for both upstream research and downstream applications related to agrifoods. One of her key achievements includes establishing, in partnership with Mars Inc., the African Orphan Crops Consortium Next Generation Sequencing (AOCC-NGS) state-of-the-art laboratory to generate sequence information to use in marker-assisted breeding of neglected African crops. She also led a 10-year programme in collaboration with Unilever to domesticate and develop a new tree crop Allanblackia spp for Africa, which has made it to European markets. In recent years, she has been heavily engaged in mobilizing diverse tree seed portfolios for productive landscape restoration integrating food trees and biodiversity conservation.

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Tree diversity for climate change adaptation and food system resilience

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GLOBAL LANDSCAPES FORUM (GLF)

The Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) is the world’s largest knowledge-led platform on integrated land use, dedicated to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Climate Agreement. The Forum takes a holistic approach to create sustainable landscapes that are productive, prosperous, equitable and resilient and considers five cohesive themes of food and livelihoods, landscape restoration, rights, finance and measuring progress. It is led by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), in collaboration with its co-founders UNEP and the World Bank and Charter Members. Charter members: CIAT, CIFOR-ICRAF, CIRAD, Climate Focus, Conservation International, Crop Trust, Ecoagriculture Partners, The European Forest Institute, Evergreen Agriculture, FAO, FSC, GEF, GIZ, ICIMOD, IFOAM - Organics International, The International Livestock Research Institute, INBAR, IPMG, IUFRO, Rainforest Alliance, Rare, Rights and Resources Initiative, SAN, TMG-Think Tank for Sustainability, UNCCD, UNEP, Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation part of Wageningen Research, World Farmer Organization, World Agroforestry, World Bank Group, World Resources Institute, WWF International, Youth in Landscapes Initiative (YIL)