Presentation by Dennis Garrity (Senior Fellow, World Agroforestry Centre) at the May 15, 2013 event "Natural Resource Management and Food Security for a Growing Population". For more information visit: http://www.wri.org/event/2013/05/natural-resource-management-and-food-security-growing-population

1. Opportunities (and imperatives) for
scaling-up proven practices
Dennis Garrity
UN Drylands Ambassador
Senior Research Fellow World Agroforestry Centre
Chair, Partnership to Create an EverGreen Agriculture

3. Total Global Emissions are accelerating
…but land-based emissions are declining
Land-use change black line: Includes management-climate interactions
Source: Le Quéré et al. 2012; Global Carbon Project 2012

5. Climate Smart Agriculture
Triple Win
• Raise productivity growth,
• Enhanced resilience to hotter temperatures
and to drought and flooding pressures, and
• Make agriculture a strong carbon sink, rather
than being an major emitter.

6. Terrorism & Political Violence

7. Trend in non-climate related net primary productivity
1981–2006. Conjin et al 2013.
New post-2015 Sustainable Development Goal:
Zero Net Land Degradation by 2030

9. What is Evergreen Agriculture?
A form of more intensive farming that
integrates trees into crop and livestock
production systems.
Evergreen farming systems are ‘double- story’
systems that feature both perennial and annual
species (food crops and trees), maintaining a
green cover on the land throughout the year.

10. Types of Evergreen Agriculture
1. Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR)
on cropland
2. Conservation agriculture with trees (CAWT)
3. Conventional agriculture interplanted with trees

11. Aerial view of a parkland dominated by Faidherbia in Niger

12. Mobilizing for scaling-up: Major agroforestry regions in
West Africa and directions of expansion

13. Faidherbia albida is commonly found in cereal crop
systems in Ethiopia
Ethiopian Prime Minister announces national programme
to establish 100 million Faidherbia trees in farmers’ fields
December 2011

14. Kenyan Farmlands: Bold policy to achieve
>10% tree cover on farms through a
National Evergreen Agriculture Programme

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

17. 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

18. 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

19. The Founding Partners
• World Agroforestry Centre (host)
• World Resources Institute
• World Vision Australia and World Vision
International
• African Forest Forum
• African Regreening Initiative

20. Scaling up an Integrated
Evergreen Agriculture
Exploiting the synergies
Integrating Biofertilizer and Fodder Trees into croplands to
restore and build more productive and drought resilient farming
and livestock systems
Rainwater Harvesting with an accent on simple techniques for
enhanced crop production, water recharge and water retention
integrated with agroforestry.
Integrated Soil Fertility Management with fertilizer microdosing
with enhanced organic nutrient sources combined with
agroforestry.

21. Fitting evergreen agriculture in the diverse the
farming systems of Africa

22. The Next Phase
Accelerate the ongoing national scaling-
up programmes in Malawi, Zambia,
Burkina Faso and Niger
National Agroforestry Food Security
Programmes being developed for
India, Senegal, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and
Kenya
Preparatory work for new programmes
under way in Tanzania, Mali, and 12
other countries

23. EverGreen Agriculture wins UK Climate Award!

24. Donors are mobilizing to support scaling-
up of an integrated evergreen agriculture
• Australia
• EU AGIR
• IGAD horn of Africa
• Netherlands
• UK
• USAID
• Germany
• Gates Foundation

25. Conclusions
• The drylands crises are serious and multi-
dimensional
• A fresh low-cost approach to land regeneration and
food security has taken root in Africa, and is spreading
widely.
• Millions of smallholders are adopting effective low cost
land regeneration methods
• Poorest households should be targeted over large
areas to end hunger in Africa
• Many nations are implementing or launching national
scaling-up programmes
• The EverGreen Agriculture Partnership is accelerating
the process of widespread adoption

26. For More Information
World Agroforestry Centre
www.worldagroforestry.org
Evergreen Agriculture web site
www.evergreenagriculture.net
d.garrity@cgiar.org