Post on 12-Jan-2017
Managing water and land resources The essential pathway to unlocking Africa’s
agricultural potentialDennis Garrity
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.
Trend in biomass productivity by farming system
Alarming Land Degradation in Africa
AFRICA RESTORATION INITIATIVE
Image: Flickr/USAID Kenya
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!
WATER and RestorationLAND and Restoration
ECOSYSTEMS and Restoration
The Billion Dollar Business Plan for 2 Million Farm Ponds in Africa in
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
Billion Dollar Business Plan System
WATER and RestorationLAND and Restoration
ECOSYSTEMS and Restoration
A Desertifying Landscape Southern Niger in the 1980s
The Parkland Renaissance on Niger Farmlands
Farmer-Managed Regeneration of trees has been massively upscaled on the croplands in Niger
Major agroforestry regions in West Africa and potential directions of expansion
Malawi Maize Lands Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration Expanding
Widely
Conservation agriculture with reduced tillage and trees increases productivity while restoring land quality and reducing labor.
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Urban Area Water bodies
Land use (ha) – RwandaLand that is: - agricultural-non-forested-sloping (5-55%).
Rwanda’s plan for restoration interventions
The European Commission Challenge to Scale-Up
EverGreen Agriculture to 50 million farmers in Africa
Building a baseline and tracking system
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
ECOSYSTEMS and Restoration
More than Food: Societal Demands from Agricultural Landscapes
For More Information and to Get Engaged
Evergreen Agriculture web site www.evergreenagriculture.net
Email contact:d.garrity@cgiar.org