Changing lives and landscapes
When the pioneer of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR), Tony Rinaudo held a workshop in Kijabe, Kenya, the invited participants from the Beating Famine conference were baffled by the simplicity of what they heard and saw. During the FMNR tour, the message was clear and simple.
I first visited the Talensi-Nabdam district in Ghana in July 2009. I was there to run a workshop with community leaders on Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR), the reforestation method that I had stumbled upon while living in Niger back in 1983.
Two very different places – oceans apart – shared their climate-smart stories in a fascinating FAO/WFP/IFAD side event at the United Nations climate change meeting, COP17, on 2 December.
Poor farmers will not adopt climate-smart agricultural techniques if they do not offer the farmers clear and immediate benefits. During a side event at the UN Climate Change meeting in Durban on 1 December 2012, World Agroforestry’s Henry Neufeldt highlighted the need to transform agriculture because extensification and intensification have had significant negative effects on [...]
At the UN Climate Change talks in Durban, South Africa there is much talk about climate-smart agriculture. While agriculture accounts for an estimated 10-12% of global greenhouse gas emissions, there is enormous potential for improved agricultural practices to reduce these, and in some cases – such as through agroforestry –actually mitigate climate change. However, unless [...]
The question of just what constitutes so-called climate-smart agriculture has been puzzling me as I’ve heard the term pop up on numerous occasions recently.
