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EVERGREEN AGRICULTURE: Case Study for Niger
Abasse Tougiani
Agro-ecological zones in Niger : climatic zones
THE SITUATION IN THE EARLY 1980s
REACTIONS IN THE 1980s TO THE CRISIS: Land rehabilitation using water harvesting techniques
Technical breakthrough in soil and water conservation enabling effective rehabilitation ofdegraded land
Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) is the systematic regeneration of living and sprouting tree stumps. From these living stumps of indigenous trees and shrubs, numerous shoots sprout. FMNR involves selection and pruning of desired stems, culling of rejected stems and regular pruning of undesired re-growth
Today the situation on many farms is very different.
Main species used in FMNR in Niger and considered for fertility ,windbreak and Fodder function
species Fertility Wind break Fodder
Piliostigmareticulatum
xx xx x
Guierasenegalensis
xx xx xx
Faidherbia albida xxx xx xxx
Prosopis africana xx xx xx
Hyphaenethebaica
xx x
Combretumglutinosum
x xx x
Annonasenegalensis
xx
Cassia singueana xx
Dichrostachyscinera
x xx
•Faidherbia albida parklandwith tree densityranged between40 to 50 treesrestore per hectare 100kg of Nitrogen, 18 kg of calcium, 20 kg of manganeseand 2 kg of potassium.
• Millet yield of 2910 kg/ha under Faidherbia albida parklandversus openedfield with value of 367kg/ha
Enhancing Tree diversity through Participatory Domestication
Drivers that bring the re-greening process forward
Ideas and models:
Agroforestry practices emerged both from indigenous knowledge , but also from
research;
New approaches to Research and Development ;
External catalysts:
The environmental crisis of the 1970s and 1980s created in the farmers the need
to find innovative ways
Social drivers:
Farmers took a central role;
Forming new organizational structures;
Capacity building of communities
Spaces for re-greening initiatives to grow:
Partnership space:
Spreading technical innovation requires coordinated and flexible configuration of actors;
Cultural space:
The Sahelian countries have a great diversity of cultures and livelihood systems, which requires a flexible menu of technical options that farmers can adapt to their own socio-economic and environmentalconditions;
Institutional/organisational capacity space:
The technical aspects of agroforestry are fairly simple, but the
management of the new tree capital requires not only trainings
but also the creation of new local institutions
THANK YOU!
« A land without Trees is like a people without hope »