EverGreen Agriculture and Creating a Land Degradation Neutral World Dennis Garrity Drylands Ambassador, UNCCD Senior Fellow, World Agroforestry Centre & World Resources Institute Chair, Partnership to Create an EverGreen Agriculture

Trend in biomass productivity by farming system

Image: Flickr/CIFOR; Source: WRI 150m hectares under restoration by 2020 AMBITIOUS GLOBAL TARGETS EXIST The Bonn Challenge 350m hectares under restoration by 2030 New York Declaration 3

RESTORE VITALITY AND BALANCE TO THE LANDSCAPE 10

Agriculture Forest Degraded or Under- Utilized Land Opportunity to restore hope, security, resilience and sustained prosperity Climate Smart Agriculture Forest Agro-forestry and Silvopasture Landscapes Today Landscapes in 2050 Restore ecosystem services Intensify & sustain productivity Avoid deforestation Restore into mixed systems Restore & sustain productivity 5 Agro-forestry and Silvopasture REVERSING THE PARADIGM OF DEGRADATION

The Parkland Renaissance on Niger Farmlands

Farmer-Managed Regeneration of trees has been massively upscaled on the croplands in Niger

NIGER Bringing back the Sahel’s ‘underground forest’  5 million ha of land restored, over 200 million trees re-established Additional half a million tonnes of grain per year Reduces drought impacts Sequestration of carbon in soil and trees Learning from farmers: Farmer managed natural regeneration

Major agroforestry regions in West Africa and potential directions of expansion

Malawi Maize Lands Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration Expanding Widely

Vision for the Drylands 2 nd Africa Drylands Declaration «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."

What is Evergreen Agriculture? A VISION of a more agroecologically intensive farming that integrates trees directly 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.

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

Faidherbia Gliricidia Maize stubble Faidherbia Gliricidia Maize DRY SEASON WET SEASON Fertilizer-Fodder-Fuelwood Trees in Food Crop Production Systems

EverGreen Fertilizer Subsidies 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.

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

The EverGreen Agriculture Partnership 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

Creating Action Plans 1. Achieve the Africa Union Target: Reach every dryland farm in Africa with Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration. 2. With COMESA: Link national input subsidy programs with the massive upscaling of fertilizer-fodder-fuelwood trees supported by ICRAF.

Creating Action Plans (cont’d) 3. With NEPAD: Create national programs to scale-up Climate Smart Agriculture practice to reach 25 m farms by With the Global Restoration Initiative: Make national commitments to the global target of restoring 350 m ha by Restored farmland, forests, grazing land.

Linking EverGreen Agriculture and the Mission of Key International Efforts The Africa Union's Aspiration to Extend Farmer- Managed Natural Regeneration to All Drylands Households - Elvis Tangem, Head, Great Green Wall of the Sahel and Sahara Initiative FAO's Support to Creating an EverGreen Agriculture – Nora Berrahmouni, Dryland Forests Officer EverGreen Pastoral Systems – Jonathan Davies, Coordinator, Global Drylands Initiative IUCN EverGreen Agriculture and the GEF Land Degradation Portfolio – Ulrich Appel, Global Environment Facility EverGreen Agriculture and the Landscapes Program – Louis Wertz, Ecoagriculture Partners