Resources Tagged: Fmnr

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  1. Photo Essay: FMNR Restores Termite Harvesting as Poultry Feed in Talensi, Ghana

    2019-07-24 Over the past 35 years, Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) has restored forests on millions of hectares of land in at least 24 countries. FMNR has also had some surprising results. For example, the introduction of FMNR in the Talensi District of Northern Ghana has boosted farmers’ local...
    Chicken feed FMNR Termites

  2. Monkey Bread

    The Monkey Bread tree is a fairly short, nitrogen-fixing tree, to 15 m in height. It is one of the main species used for Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration in West Africa and is a good for fuelwood, household utensils, farm implements and light construction. It is known as a “famine food”...
    Camel's Foot Leaf ... JCB FMNR Agroforestry Tree ... Agroforestry Trees

  3. Panel : Scaling Up Conservation Agriculture

    This session introduces the scaling up CA programs and features the various aspects of the CFGB program, namely training, policy and marketing. The panel session provides sharing by one CA Technical Specialist, a Policy and Advocacy Advisor and a Marketing Coordinator. Moderator : Mueni Mutinda...
    Conservation Agric... FMNR Farmer Managed Nat... East Africa

  4. East Africa’s Drought: Q and A

    2011-10-20 World Vision (WV) Australia is involved in both agricultural development and relief work in East Africa. We asked folks there to answer a few questions regarding the current drought and famine. In what ways have you been involved with addressing the drought and famine in the Horn of Africa? Could...
    Acacia Agricultural Devel... Drought Agroforestry FMNR Conservation Agric... Agricultural System Famine Sustainable Develo... Sustainable Agricu...

  5. Beating Famine 3: The Sahel Meeting the AFR 100 Challenge

    2019-02-26 The third in the series of “Beating Famine” Conferences is being planned for the Sahel. The focus has shifted from building awareness of FMNR (Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration) and EverGreen Agriculture practices, to taking proven successes to massive scale. Invited participants from across...
    Farmer Managed Nat... FMNR West Africa

  6. Lablab (Lablab purpureus) New Staple Crop for the Sudano Sahel

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    2013-01-20 About 98% of agricultural production in the Sudano Sahelian region of West and Central Africa is based on rainfed crops. With a mean annual rainfall of 300 to 800 mm/year, the number of staple crops is very limited. It includes two grain crops: pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) for sandy soils...
    Rain-fed Agriculture Nitrogen Fixation Forage Crop FMNR Food Security Intercropping Pulses Lablab

  7. Guest Post: Travis Silveus - Peace Corps Volunteer, Tanzania

    2016-05-24 Travis Silveus is a Peace Corps Volunteer who is extending for his 3rd year in Tanzania by working with ECHO East Africa. He did his two year work in Kijunguvillage, Kiteto, Manyara Region, and here he shares some honest experiences of that time. "In my village, deforestation is a problem. If a...
    Deforestation FMNR African Moringa Tanzania Peace Corps East Africa

  8. Acacia angustissima Farming Improvement Experience

    2021-07-06 Deforestation, overused soils, increasing competition for land, and climate change have made subsistence farming in much of Central Africa a precarious occupation. Malnutrition is on the rise, and local economies have declined in many places. The use of leguminous trees in agroforestry systems...
    Agroforestry Systems Farmer Managed Nat... FMNR

  9. Exceptional Impact of a Novel Approach to Reforestation in Sub- Saharan Africa—an Update.

    2006-01-20 FMNR is a form of tree coppicing and hence depends on the presence of living tree stumps that resprout after cutting.
    Agroforestry Forestry Rural Development FMNR

  10. Impressive reforestation by taking advantage of the “Underground Forest.”

    2008-07-20 Farmer Managed NaturalRegeneration (FMNR) can potentially have an enormous impact on the environment and the welfare of whole countries.
    FMNR