Pathways to increased resiliency

Building Climate Smart Agriculture in the SahelMarch 1, 2012

• Increased pressures on rural production systems

– Restore– Intensify– Diversify

• Changed perceptions about rights to trees

– secure management rights– Able to sell wood in local

markets

• Appreciable benefits– Crop yields– Water– Firewood and poles– Fodder and NTFP

Why did farmers adopt re-greening?

• Communications and outreach– Awareness raising – Support for champions - networking– Training – demonstration – Monitoring – improved data for making the case

• Ensure favorable enabling environment– Government: decentralize and devolve – Community organizations: local agreements

governing resource access and use– Resource users: to benefit, invest in managing– Capitalize on opportunities to add value

Critical conditions for scaling up

For more information…

• CDKN Policy Brief – Niger case study• WRI World Resources 2008 – Roots of

Resilience• IFPRI 2009 Agroenvironmental transformation in

the Sahel (Chris Reij)• African Re-greening Initiative• USAID 2011 Agrilinks • Tony Rinaudo – Against the odds (Sept 2011)