Building Resilience to Climate Change and Increase Food Security Through Scaling up Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration. Presentation from Agriculture and Rural Development Day (ARDD) 2011. Learning Event number 11, Session 2, Room C. Presented by Abasse , How the Niger Republic is building resilience of farmers to climate change and increasing food security.
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Learning Event No 11, Session 2. Agriculture and Rural Development Day (ARDD) 2011
1. BUILDING RESILIENCE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
AND INCREASE FOOD SECURITY THROUGH
SCALING UP FARMER MANAGED NATURAL
REGENERATION
2. • CONTEXT:
• A
«
PERFECT
STORM
IS
BREWING
»
• >
Temperatures
will
increase
(2-‐3°
C?)
Ø Rainfall
will
become
more
erraMc
Ø Soil
ferMlity
is
depleMng
Ø Crop
yields
will
decline
(
-‐
20%?)
Ø PopulaMon
will
double
in
20
years
4. • SOME
CHALLENGES:
• HOW
TO
REDUCE
TEMPERATURES
?
• HOW
TO
INCREASE
THE
QUANTITY
OF
WATER
AVAILABLE
TO
PEOPLE,
CROPS
AND
LIVESTOCK?
• HOW
TO
FEED
A
GROWING
POPULATION?
12. Farmer-‐managed
natural
regenera.on
in
Niger
• 5,000,000
ha
re-‐greened
in
20
years
(only
labour
for
protec.on,
investment
in
extension,
no
recurrent
costs
to
governments)
• 200
million
new
trees
• addi.onal
cereal
produc.on/year:
500,000
ton
• 2.5
million
people
fed
• 1.25
million
rural
households
involved
15. What induced farmers to protect and manage
on-farm natural regeneration?
Rehabilitated field in 1988 The same field in 2008; this farm
family has been food secure since
they began rehabilitation
22. NEW VILLAGE INSTITUTION FOR TREE
MANAGEMENT
New village committees
were established to
ensure that:
Action plans are developed collectively;
• Rules for management of FMNR are shared
and respected by all villagers (+ sanctions
enforced in case of non respect)
23. OTHER REASONS FOR THE SUCCESS OF
FMNR
• Inclusion of youth in village committee activities
• Technical simplicity and cost effectiveness
• Replicability
• Low cost agricultural intensification
• Increased drought resilience
• Establishment of wood markets requiring
membership and adherence to community
endorsed regulations for wood harvesting
24. CONCLUSION:
• FARMERS
IN
PARTS
OF
THE
SAHEL
HAVE
• ADAPTED
TO
CLIMATE
CHANGE
AND
HAVE
• BUILT
MORE
COMPLEX
AND
• DROUGHT-‐RESILIENT
FARMING
SYSTEMS
• HOW
TO
SCALE
UP
EXISTING
SUCCESSES?
• HOW
TO
DEVELOP
AGROFORESTRY
VALUE
• CHAINS?