The document discusses ways that USAID can help scale up agroforestry practices in Africa to address food insecurity issues. It outlines how agroforestry has led to re-greening efforts in Niger that improved food production and livelihoods without large costs. It then recommends that USAID identify opportunities to incorporate agroforestry components into existing projects, develop national agroforestry programs, and support building a civil society movement around re-greening practices.

1. WHAT CAN USAID DO TO HELP FEED THE FUTURE?

2. Vegetation in Galma in 1975 and 2003

3. Vegetation in Galma in 1975 and 2003 1975 2003

4. Zinder: 1975 and 2005

7. Niger: 15 million inhabitants in 2010 50 million in 2050

8. AGROFORESTRY IS A LOW-COST WAY TO INTENSIFY AGRICULTURE, ADAPT TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND REDUCE RURAL POVERTY; NO RECURRENT COSTS TO GOVERNMENTS

9. WHAT CAN USAID DO TO SCALE UP AGROFORESTRY IN AND OUTSIDE THE SAHEL?

10. REVIEW PROJECT PORTFOLIOS FOR AFRICA ASIA LATIN AMERICA NORTH AFRICA AND MIDDLE EAST TO EXPLORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR INCLUDING A RE-GREENING COMPONENT

11. RE-GREENING IS ABOUT: ☻ PROMOTING ON-FARM REGENERATION ☻ TREE PLANTING ☻ PARTICIPATORY FOREST MANAGEMENT ☻ RANGE MANAGEMENT

12. 1990 LAND REHABILITATION AND AGROFORESTRY 2004 Demi lunes Combretum glutinosum Zaï Techniques simples Piliostigma reticulatum Impacts importants

13. NEW AGROFORESTS ON SENO PLAINS (MALI) 450,000 ha

15. This is what it looks like on the ground

17. MAINSTREAM AGROFORESTRY INTO EXISTING PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS

18. DEVELOP NATIONAL AGROFORESTRY PROGRAMS IN THE SAHEL…..URGENT NEED !! (x million $)

19. THIS WAS BARREN LAND IN 1985 MAINSTREAM RE-GREENING INTO ALL RELEVANT PROJECTS IN SAHEL

20. A STUDY ON ECONOMIC VALUATION OF AGROFORESTRY IN THE SAHEL IS UNDERTAKEN BY ICRAF

21. DEVELOP VALUE CHAINS IN AGROFORESTRY

22. DEVELOP A MOVEMENT AND A PROCESS AROUND RE-GREENING

23. BECOME CHAMPIONS OF RE-GREENING…

24. THE CONTENT OF RE-GREENING PROGRAMS WILL DIFFER PER COUNTRY

25. Natural regeneration in enclosure in Tigray and on-farm in Zinder

27. HOW QUICK CAN USAID ACT? HOW FLEXIBLE IS USAID? CAN USAID SUPPORT LONGER-TERM PROCESSES? « WE KNOW WHERE WE START,BUT NOT WHERE WE WILL END ».

29. Farmer-to-farmer study visits: which impact?

31. ADAPTATION OF NATIONAL POLICIES: SEEKING CHAMPIONS Hama Arba Diallo Vice-President Assemblée Nationale du Burkina Faso Dr Laurent Sedogo Ministre de l’Agriculture Burkina Faso

33. Radio programs potentially draw millions of listeners (farmers)

34. 4. Web alliance for Re-greening Africa (W4RA)

35. African Re-greening Initiatives: improve access to information

36. MOBILISATION OF INTERNATIONAL MEDIA

37. NEW YORK TIMES (2007) INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE (2007) LE MONDE (2002, 2009) LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE (2011) SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN (2011) NEW SCIENTIST (2002, 2006, 2008) NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC (2007, 2008) NPR THE NEW YORKER (2011) ABC Radio (AUSTRALIA, 2008) Radio New Zealand (2008) BBC WORLD Earth report (2006, 2009) WHAT IMPACT?

41. ADVOCACY GRASPING ALL OPPORTUNITIES

43. AFRICAN RE-GREENING INITIATIVES: Creating a process and a movement Burkina Faso, Mali Ethiopia, Niger Expanding to: Kenya, Senegal, Nigeria……. ETHIOPIE HoAREC (50 national NGOs) Drylands Coordination Group, National Forum on Climate Change, etc.

44. It is possible to improve the livelihoods of millions of farmers in Africa !!