We launched the world’s biggest privately funded, farmer-led land restoration programme in Kenya in May this year. The Global EverGreening Alliance’s Restore Africa Programme will restore 1.9 million hectares of land. That equates to supporting 1.5 million smallholder farming families across six African countries – Kenya, Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. The Programme will…
Kenyan FMNR champion Irene Ojuok talks to EverGreening Senior Fellow Dr Alan Channer When Irene Ojuok was a child, she would sit on the shores of Lake Victoria, near her hometown of Kisumu in Kenya, and reflect. ‘I had a sense of connection with nature,’ she recalls, ‘but I didn’t know you could get a…
‘It’s an entirely different way of working!’ This has been the feedback from many of the design workshop participants in East and Southern Africa. During the three weeks spanning late November and early December 2019, members from the Global EverGreening Alliance (the Alliance) secretariat facilitated six intensive multi-stakeholder workshops, to refine a massive-scale land restoration…
Report by Dr Kelechi Eleanya and Dr Alan Channer The EverGreening Network for Forest and Land Restoration (ENFORLAR) – the Nigerian chapter of the Global EverGreening Alliance – is spearheading the restoration of degraded landscapes across Nigeria’s drylands. To galvanise these efforts, ENFORLAR organized a 2nd Drylands Restoration Conference in the city of Kano,…
by Tony Rinaudo Where natural resource management principles are applied, there is “resource expansion” – more fodder, more grain, more fuel wood, more water. These principles, including Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) directly contribute to a reduction in conflict. Afterall, if there is enough to go around – why bother fighting? I hear countless…
