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1 ega partnership side event pres accra july 2013
1. The Partnership to Create an
EverGreen Agriculture in Africa
An Update
Dennis Garrity
Senior Board Research Fellow
World Agroforestry Centre
UN Drylands Ambassador
2. Perfect Storm of ChallengesÂ
âą Rainfall is becoming more erratic and extreme. Â
âą Inorganic fertilizers are increasingly expensive.
âą Soil fertility is further declining in many regions.
âą Temperatures are increasing, intensifying crop     Â
stress.
âą Population growth rates remain high and farm   Â
sizes are rapidly declining. Farming is expanding intoÂ
more marginal lands.
9. December 2011: Ethiopian Prime Minister announces
national programme to establish 100 million
Faidherbia trees in farmersâ fields
10. Kenyan Farmlands: Bold policy to achieve
>10% tree cover on farms through a
National Agroforestry Programme
11.
12. Climate Smart Agriculture
Triple Win
âą Raise productivity create food security,
âą Build resilience to climate shocks: droughts,
hotter temperatures
âą Make agriculture a strong carbon sink, rather
than being an major emitter
16. 17 Countries are 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
18. Take home messages
âą A fresh low-cost approach to land regeneration
and food security has taken root in Africa, and is
spreading across the continent.
âą Millions of smallholders are adopting effective
low cost land regeneration methods
âą EverGreen Agriculture can be embedded in
many types of sustainable intensification initiatives
âą Many nations are creating the policy and
institutional environments to favor adoption
âą The EverGreen Agriculture Partnership is
accelerating the process of widespread adoption
19. Getting engaged
Evergreen Agriculture Partnership
www.evergreenagriculture.net
World Agroforestry Centre
www.worldagroforestry.org
Email contacts:
d.garrity@cgiar.org
âd.garrity@cgiar.org
Hinweis der Redaktion
International and regional development organisations - While Worldvision is one of our most important partners, we are also speaking to the Catholic relief service amoung other organisations Donors Governments and Policy International and Regional Research organisations Farmers and agricultural groups Private Sector Education Youth Civil Society