The Landscapes for People, Food and Nature in Africa conference kicked off at the World Agroforestry Centre‘s conference hall, at their headquarters in Nairobi with major players calling for harmonization and integration of people living within the landscapes, with respect to the growing population. Challenges were thrown and shared across the hall by players from different environment and agriculture sectors.
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Kenya is one of the leading countries in Africa to embrace the Integrated Landscape Approach, though experts attending the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature in Africa Conference say that urbanization and the quest for development is a real threat to this progress.
In the Sahel region, millions of hectares have been regenerated by smallholder farmers practicing agroforestry, soil and water conservation, soil fertility management, and sustainable forest management. Similar results have been achieved in the Horn of Africa and the Southern Africa region, where the legume tree known as Fadherbia albida is being used for soil fertility management. Most of these technologies and practices are not new, but their application by hundreds of thousands of smallholder farmers has been a major factor in creating impact at scale.
As the EU continues work and investment in the conflict-stricken Mali, supporting locally-evolved and adapted solutions can help solve one of the sources of violence, food insecurity, writes Roland Bunch.
The EverGreen Agriculture Parnership is hosting a side event at the upcoming FARA African Agricultural Science Week in Accra, Ghana.
The event will update participants on recent developments and foster discussion on new partnership opportunities to support EverGreen Agricultures broad-based effort for transformative change. Speakers will present the global context that is driving EverGreen Agriculture as well as on ground experiences of the spread of EverGreen agricultural practices such as farmer-managed natural regeneration in West Africa, the use of fertilizer trees in Southern Africa, and the scaling up approaches that have contributed to these successes. Senior discussants will share their perspectives and suggestions on the process of scaling-up and the planning imperative for accelerated expansion. Participants will be invited in the Q&A plenary discussion to query about the ways forward in the creation of an EverGreen Agriculture system in their own contexts.
Speakers will include Dr. Dennis Garrity, ICRAF, Abasse Tougiani, NRAN, Niger, Norbert Akolbila, World Vision, Ghana and Jonathan Muriuki, ICRAF, in addition to an exciting panel of senior discussants.
Please find attached the event program for more information.
The UN General Assembly held its 3rd Session for the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals last week in New York. Participants discussed a range of topics including food security and nutrition, sustainable agriculture, desertification, land degradation and drought, to progress the development of the sustainable development goals. Dr. Dennis Garrity, UNCCD Drylands Ambassador, addressed the Assembly on these matters and presented his ideas for a SDG on Land Regeneration and the opportunities EverGreen Agriculture provides in the achievement of such a goal.
You can watch a full recording of the presentations made by both Dr. Garrity and Professor Hans Herron, and the discussion that followed here: UN WebTV
Download a copy of the remarks made by Dr. Dennis Garrity below.
