Releasing the Underground Forest
Building on natural and social capital for food and
nutrition security
Tony Rinaudo
Principal Natural Resource Advisor
World Vision Australia
The systematic regeneration & management of trees
and shrubs growing from living tree stumps, roots &
seedlings
Re-greening mindsets in order to
re-green landscapes
Diagram: Bogie Nathaniel A., Bayala Roger, Diedhiou Ibrahima, Conklin Martha H., Fogel Marilyn L., Dick Richard P., Ghezzehei Teamrat A. 2018. Hydraulic Redistribution by Native Sahelian Shrubs: Bioirrigation to Resist In-Season Drought. Front Env. Sci. Vol 6, 18Sep18. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fenvs.2018.00098
360C
350C 450C
710C
200 million trees
5,000,000 hectares in 20 years
~ 5 million tons CO2 / year
Pye-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/
Up to $1,000 household income
$900 million
4.5 million people
500,000 tons
2.5 million people
Tree Planting FMNR
1975 – 82
(7 years)
1984 – 2004
(20 years)
$160 million < $10 million
20,000 hectares 5 million hectares
$8,000/ha <$2 / ha
200 - 500%
From destitute day labourer to
entrepreneurial farmer: 176% increase in
income in two years - Musa Chelelgo,Kenya.
Education
Gebremichael Gidey, community leader is emphatic - “Ninety
percent of our youth are here. Compared to nearby villages,
the main difference is that ours has become full of water.
Because of that they are earning a lot of money from
vegetables, livestock fattening and dairy.” https://www.theguardian.com/global-
development-professionals-network/2016/aug/03/ethiopia-restored-drylands-migration-eroded-deforested
'No one leaves any more': Ethiopia's
restored drylands offer new hope
Restoration of hope.
Recommendations:
Focus on empowerment and enabling communities
Diplomacy for an enabling environment – land & tree
ownership/ user rights
Market linkages / fair value chain development
Primary, secondary, tertiary school curriculums
Bonn challenge / AFR100 - FMNR roll out opportunity
Thank you
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