Changing lives and landscapes
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.
Is boosting soils sustainably – through legumes, intercropping, agroforestry, cover crops, mulching and other soil improving techniques – the solution to meeting Africa’s food production needs? Asia had the green revolution in the late 20th century. The development of improved seed varieties together with the expansion of irrigation infrastructure, the modernization of management techniques and [...]
Recently retired Director General of the World Agroforestry Centre, Dr Dennis Garrity, has been appointed UN Drylands Ambassador. “It will be my duty to inform the wider community about the great successes in regenerating drylands around the world,” said Garrity in accepting the honour. Agroforestry is seen as having enormous potential to mitigate the effects [...]
Experts from varying fields of agricultural research came together in Nairobi, Kenya on 1 September 2011 to discuss the underlying causes and potential solutions to the devastating famine in the Horn of Africa. A useful web page has been created to pull together information on this CGIAR Consortium event Famine in the Horn of Africa: [...]
With the continuing horrific situation in the Horn of Africa, media, NGOs and other have been coming to us saying things like “surely there’s a huge role for agroforestry there to transform these landscapes and ensure the viability of farming in dryland areas”. It seems agroforestry is increasingly being viewed as a solution to agricultural [...]
