The Impact of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR)

Tony RinaudoPrincipal Natural Resources AdvisorWorld Vision Australia

The type of benefits we see pushes me sometimes to leave my home and just walk through my field to appreciate the

trees and Environment”. Lead farmer, Senegal.

Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration

The systematic regeneration & sustainable management of trees & shrubs growing from living tree stumps, roots and seeds on farmland, grazing land, forests and wasteland.

Select desired tree stumps &

for each stump, choose number of (tallest and

straightest stems to leave

Remove unwanted stems and

side branches

Cull emerging new stems & prune side branches

from time to time

1975US Geological Survey. 2005

Haiti, Senegal, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, India, Myanmar, Indonesia, East Timor, Philippines,

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FMNR increases drought resilience

Due to FMNR, gross income has grown by ~ $1,000 per household / year, or ~ $900 million/year nationally, benefiting 4.5 million people.

Farmers produce 500,000 more tons of cereal per year than in the 1970s and 1980s due to FMNR….. 2.5 million people are now more food securePye-Smith.C. 2013. The Quiet Revolution: How Niger’s farmers are re-greening the parklands of the Sahel; ICRAF Trees for Change no.12. Nairobi; World Agroforestry Centre.

Reij, C., Tappan, G., Smale, M. 2009. Agro-environmental transformation in the Sahel: another kind of “Green Revolution”. IFPRI Discussion Paper 00914. International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC

Sendzimir, J., Reij, C.P., Magnuszewski, P. 2011. Rebuilding Resilience in the Sahel: Regreening in the Maradi and Zinder Regions of Niger Ecology and

Society 16 (3): 1 http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol16/iss3/art1/ 

Sahel: survival

Kenya: 500% milk production

Uganda: 410% Carrying capacity

Humiliation was our daily food as insults kept on pouring on us which sometimes led to a fight with the farmers. But now, …abundance of fodder ….. easily move our cattle to graze without destroying crops ... Mr. Abu Ananga, Fulani herdsmen, UE, Ghana.

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Before - We were nobody and nothing!

“We are too much happy.”

2,700 ha. Humbo Community Managed Natural Regeneration Project, Ethiopia.