1. GLOBAL WORKING GROUP
Discussions Outcomes 12042012
BEATING FAMINE
World Agroforestry Centre
Nairobi
April 10-13, 2012

2. Purpose
Explore the concept of having a new network
to foster global collaboration, information
exchange, and capacity building to support
the community of nations engaged in scaling-
up evergreen agriculture, and assisting them
to overcome the barriers to adoption

3. IDEA: Create a network based on a
movement
Evergreen agriculture is out of the box –
capture the moment and create a new global
network

4. Network platform
Who is the platform for?
- NGOs, Research, Govt. –
- Grassroots network with links into higher
Who should be involved?
- Herding Cats: Can’t start with everyone
- Take the lead and invite participation
The Host:
- Research/NGO Partnership (non-political)
Eg WAC needs WV and visa-versa

5. What would it do?
1. Science to provide an evidence base
2. Support/facilitate project delivery
3. Global promotion/funding
Time for us to take collective action

6. 1. Clearinghouse for the Evidence Base and Support
Research and key Barriers to Scaling-up.
– Satisfy the need for hard data
– Inform, validate, integrate with operatives.
– Collaboration to get long term evidence from
program M&E
– Interview farmers to find the modifications then find
the evidence/science that explains or validates it ( or
questions it)
– Highlight relationships with outcomes/goals (next)

7. Articulate the link between Evergreen Ag and key
outcomes
– Nutrition: relationship between
increase in agricultural
productivity and wellbeing.
– Health: children, disease,
– Social/Political Issues (refugees,
security etc)
– Carbon Sequestration
– Gender issues
– Highlight why it takes time to
achieve sustainable change (fight
the 18mth target mentality)

8. 2. Facilitating and supporting extension, capacity
building and on ground projects.
– Training people on the ground
– Coordination and networking
– Developing industrial tree product markets,
value chains
– Guiding project methods (prizes, extension)
– Facilitating farmer-to-farmer learning
between projects and countries
– Policy changes in countries and regions to
support Evergreen Ag
– Provide privileged access to
research/technical support for on-ground
projects

9. 3. Promoting Evergreen Ag to the Donors and
Governments and their community.
– Engaging the urban community into the re-greening
of rural lands
– Highlighting how other policies (trade) impact on Re-
greening
– Advocating/promoting the link between Evergreen Ag
to outcomes: children, women, livelihoods
– Develop and promote the BRAND (Advertising)
– Influence International meetings (Rio +20) by
engaging with powerful and giving them the credit

10. Change the Re-greening paradigm
From big planting programs driven by
global needs (holding back the
desert/carbon/famine) to farmers doing it
themselves for their own benefit (with
global spinoffs).

11. Global Working Group’s Key message
Branding statements:
Evergreen Agriculture:
‘Regreening by farmers for
farmers’.

12. Not our message but
a message from 160
million farmers:
.
1. As farmers we want trees for our own sustainable and
resilient food security and livelihoods systems
2. Our ‘friends’ have the science, people, knowledge,
and means to help us help ourselves.
3. If we do what is good for us – it will be good for the global
community (Social, biodiversity, carbon)

13. $50 Million to start
- $5 Mn – to create the global fund
- $5Mn- promote the brand
- $10 Mn – pilots to create data, research –
evidence of links with health, livelihoods, etc.
Demonstrate short, medium and long term
outcomes
Identify means by which practise is promoted
- $30 Mn – strategic investment to create
expansion (training, resources, M&E, examples)