By Tony Rinaudo

1. The Impact of
Farmer Managed
Natural Regeneration
(FMNR)
Tony Rinaudo
Principal Natural Resources Advisor
World Vision Australia

2. The type of benefits we see pushes me sometimes to leave
my home and just walk through my field to appreciate the
trees and Environment”. Lead farmer, Senegal.

6. Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration
The systematic regeneration & sustainable
management of trees & shrubs growing from
living tree stumps, roots and seeds on farmland,
grazing land, forests and wasteland.

8. Select desired
tree stumps &
for each stump,
choose number
of (tallest and
straightest
stems to leave
Remove
unwanted
stems and
side
branches
Cull emerging
new stems &
prune side
branches
from time to
time

10. 1975
US Geological Survey. 2005

11. Haiti, Senegal, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan,
Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda,
Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, India,
Myanmar, Indonesia, East Timor, Philippines,

12. Beating Famine Conference:
 Talks,
 Thematic sessions,
 Side events
 Field visit
http://fmnrhub.com.au/

14. FMNR increases drought resilience

15. Due to FMNR, gross income has grown by
~ $1,000 per household / year,
or ~ $900 million/year nationally,
benefiting 4.5 million people.
Farmers produce 500,000 more tons of
cereal per year than in the 1970s and 1980s
due to FMNR….. 2.5 million people are now
more food secure
Pye-Smith.C. 2013. The Quiet Revolution: How Niger’s farmers are re-greening the parklands of the Sahel; ICRAF Trees for Change no.12. Nairobi;
World Agroforestry Centre.
Reij, C., Tappan, G., Smale, M. 2009. Agro-environmental transformation in the Sahel: another kind of “Green Revolution”. IFPRI Discussion Paper
00914. International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC
Sendzimir, J., Reij, C.P., Magnuszewski, P. 2011. Rebuilding Resilience in the Sahel: Regreening in the Maradi and Zinder Regions of Niger Ecology
and Society 16 (3): 1 http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol16/iss3/art1/

16. Sahel: survival
Kenya: 500% milk
production
Uganda: 410%
Carrying capacity

17. Humiliation was our daily food as insults kept on
pouring on us which sometimes led to a fight with the
farmers. But now, …abundance of fodder ….. easily
move our cattle to graze without destroying crops ...
Mr. Abu Ananga, Fulani herdsmen, UE, Ghana.

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20. Cosmetics
Tourism
Artefacts
Honey
Wild fruit
Traditional medicines

23. Before - We were nobody and nothing!

24. “We are too much happy.”
2,700 ha. Humbo Community
Managed Natural Regeneration
Project, Ethiopia.