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Creating an EverGreen Agriculture in Africa: To Achieve a Win-Win-Win Dennis Garrity Drylands Ambassador, UNCCD Chair, Partnership to Create an EverGreen Agriculture

Alarming Land Degradation in Africa Trend in biomass productivity by farming system

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

Ethiopia: FMNR in Tigray villages

Household with faidherbia in fields

Malawi Maize Lands Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration > 1 million farms

Some Major Evergreening Successes • 7,000,000 hectares of FMNR now mapped in Niger • 15,000,000 hectares of FMNR estimated across Mali, Senegal, Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Chad • 500,000 hectares recent evergreening through FMNR on the Seno plains in Mali • > 1 m ha in Ethiopia • > 1 m ha now mapped in Malawi! • 10s of thousands of hectares in Kenya, Rwanda and Ghana • And the process is also on its way even in Somaliland

Vision for the Drylands 2 nd Africa Drylands Declaration Djamena, August 2014 «WE RECOMMEND AND PROPOSE that the drylands development community commit seriously to achieving the goal of Enabling EVERY farm family and EVERY village across the drylands of Africa to be practicing Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration by the year 2025."

Conservation agriculture with reduced tillage and trees increases productivity while restoring land quality and reducing labor.

Gliricidia and disbursed Sole Maize shade for drought resilience

COMESA-NEPAD EverGreen Fertilizer Subsidies Platform Linking input subsidies to the upscaling of agroforestry for integrated soil fertility management New Facility Assisting countries to develop the capability to scale-up fertilizer tree technologies within their input subsidy programs.

The European Commission Challenge: Scale-Up EverGreen Agriculture now to 50 million farmers in Africa

17 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

For More Information and to Get Engaged Evergreen Agriculture web site www.evergreenagriculture.net Email contact: d.garrity@cgiar.org