Farmer-managed regeneration in Niger spread to about 5 million hectares by 2004
Short record: the main facts, with sources. A full case file has not been prepared.
- The record does not name which of my species, waters, soils or forests were harmed.
From 1983 in Maradi, farmers pruned and protected trees that regrew from stumps in their fields. The method needed little planting, and farmers supplied the labour.
What happened
USGS EROS reported that farmer-managed natural regeneration began in 1983 in Maradi, Niger, with about ten farmers pruning and protecting trees that regrew from roots left in fields.
By 2004 the method had spread to about 5 million hectares, described in the sources as about half of Niger's farmland, and was associated with more than 500,000 tonnes of extra grain a year.
Forest laws that had taken tree ownership from farmers from the 1930s until 1993 changed, so farmers came to own the trees; because no planting was needed, costs stayed low.
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What we don't know
Nature
- Not measured Harm to nature: The record holds no measurement of harm to nature.
Record
- None on record Niger's government role, and any payments to farmers, are not stated in the sources reviewed.
- None on record The grain figure is described as associated with the method; the sources do not establish that the method caused it.
- None on record The current area under regeneration is not stated.
Did the harm stop?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Who paid?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Sources
Press and investigations
- Landscape restoration and re-greeningUSGS EROS · 2023-05-18
- Farmer-managed natural regenerationWikipedia ·