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Managing water and land resources The essential pathway to unlocking Africa’s
agricultural potentialDennis Garrity
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The Food Production Challenge in Perspective
• Hunger is overwhelmingly rural, so the real challenge is to assist the 100 million smallholders to produce more food and income in Africa, and
• To restore, regenerate and sustain the natural resource base for future food production.
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Trend in biomass productivity by farming system
Alarming Land Degradation in Africa
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AFRICA RESTORATION INITIATIVE
Image: Flickr/USAID Kenya
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17 countries have made commitments including:
• Ethiopia 15 million hectares• Kenya 5 million hectares• Uganda 2.5 million hectares• Rwanda 2 million hectares
Total commitments are now about 45 m hectares by countries in West, Central, East and Southern Africa. 19
Political commitment to scale up restoration successes is growing!
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WATER and RestorationLAND and Restoration
ECOSYSTEMS and Restoration
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The Billion Dollar Business Plan for 2 Million Farm Ponds in Africa in
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From Subsistence to Small-Scale Commercial Enterprises:
The Lare Case Example
• Farmers in Lare, Kenya have the highest density of farm ponds per km2
• 5,000 farm ponds installed
• Pond water used for supplementary irrigation on drought-prone farms
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Billion Dollar Business Plan System
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WATER and RestorationLAND and Restoration
ECOSYSTEMS and Restoration
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A Desertifying Landscape Southern Niger in the 1980s
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The Parkland Renaissance on Niger Farmlands
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Farmer-Managed Regeneration of trees has been massively upscaled on the croplands in Niger
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Major agroforestry regions in West Africa and potential directions of expansion
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Malawi Maize Lands Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration Expanding
Widely
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Conservation agriculture with reduced tillage and trees increases productivity while restoring land quality and reducing labor.
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Closed Forest Woodland/Tree Crops Cropland Savanna/ Prairie/Shrubland Grassland
Urban Area Water bodies
Land use (ha) – RwandaLand that is: - agricultural-non-forested-sloping (5-55%).
Rwanda’s plan for restoration interventions
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The European Commission Challenge to Scale-Up
EverGreen Agriculture to 50 million farmers in Africa
Building a baseline and tracking system
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18 African countries are now engaged in EverGreen Agriculture
Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration
Conservation Agriculture with trees
Trees interplanted in conventional tilled cropland
Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration +
Trees interplanted in conventional tilled cropland
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ECOSYSTEMS and Restoration
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More than Food: Societal Demands from Agricultural Landscapes
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For More Information and to Get Engaged
Evergreen Agriculture web site www.evergreenagriculture.net
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