SILVA Expertise is led by 10 future engineers in agronomy and international development at ISTOM. The name “ silva ” means “ forest ” in Latin and translates our willingness to carry out an expertise on the field of agroforestry. We are convinced of the effectiveness and sustainability of this agricultural practice, which increases the resilience of local systems and populations. ISTOM is the main partner of our mission. This school offers a complete training with technical education in agriculture, as well as knowledge of economic and social sciences. The ISTOM engineer, specialized in tropical regions, has international mobility. 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.