Dennis garrity-the partnership-evergreen agriculture in africa-fara-aasw6-2013

While small scale family farmers grow food, and produce 70% of the food in this region, we remain to be poorest, hungriest, mostmalnourished? Why ? First because many of us do not have adequate access , control or ownership of the basic natural resources needed to do farming: land, waters, forests, seeds. Without land rights, we cannot decide what to plant, when to plant, where to market the produce, and in many cases, get only a 30% share of the produce of the farm. Without water rights, the fishes we could have captured in our seas and waters are first captured by big commercial trawlers, leaving so little for the many of us who would like to fish. Without forestry rights, we lose our forests to big mining and logging companies. Without rights to breed, conserve, save and exchange seeds, we will be dependent on the seeds of big and multi-national seed companies.. Second, our yields are low, of inferior quality, and we do not have the money to buy necessary inputs such as seeds, fertilizers or even farm tools or put up needed services such as irrigation, electricity.

The Partnership to Create an EverGreen Agriculture in Africa: An Update - by Dennis Garrity

Technologie Business

The Partnership to Create an
EverGreen Agriculture in Africa
An Update
Dennis Garrity
Senior Board Research Fellow
World Agroforestry Centre
UN Drylands Ambassador

Perfect Storm of Challenges
•  Rainfall is becoming more erratic and extreme.
•  Inorganic fertilizers are increasingly expensive.
•  Soil fertility is further declining in many regions.
•  Temperatures are increasing, intensifying crop
stress.
•  Population growth rates remain high and farm
sizes are rapidly declining. Farming is expanding into
more marginal lands.

National recommendations for maize in Malawi & Zambia:
Faidherbia fertilizer trees at 100 trees per ha

Aerial view of a parkland dominated by Faidherbia in Niger

Major agroforestry regions in West Africa and
directions of expansion

Malawi National Agroforestry Food Security
Programme

December 2011: Ethiopian Prime Minister
announces national programme to establish 100
million Faidherbia trees in farmers fields

Kenyan Farmlands: Bold policy to achieve
>10% tree cover on farms through a
National Agroforestry Programme

Climate Smart Agriculture
Triple Win
•  Raise productivity create food security,
•  Build resilience to climate shocks: droughts,
hotter temperatures
•  Make agriculture a strong carbon sink, rather
than being an major emitter

Tree cover on agricultural land by farming system !

Wheat production with walnut trees !
France!

Wheat production with Paulownia trees!
!> 8 m acres in China!

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

EverGreen Agriculture Partnership Communities
Steering
Committee
Farmers and
farmer
groups International
and regional
research
Civil Society
Youth and
Education
Governments
and Policy
International
and regional
development
Donors
Private
Sector

Take home messages
•  A fresh low-cost approach to land regeneration
and food security has taken root in Africa, and is
spreading across the continent.
•  Millions of smallholders are adopting effective
low cost land regeneration methods
•  EverGreen Agriculture can be embedded in
many types of sustainable intensification initiatives
•  Many nations are creating the policy and
institutional environments to favor adoption
•  The EverGreen Agriculture Partnership is
accelerating the process of widespread adoption

Getting engaged
Evergreen Agriculture Partnership
www.evergreenagriculture.net
World Agroforestry Centre
www.worldagroforestry.org!
Email contacts:
d.garrity@cgiar.org!
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