Beating Famine: Landscape restoration in Southern Africa
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Beating Famine: Landscape restoration in Southern Africa
- 2. CONTEXT • Population Growth • Food Production Challenges • Land Degradation • Proven approaches to Boost Productivity • Opportunities to Scale up Landscape Restoration in Southern Africa
- 3. Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest total fertility rates Total fertility rate (2005–2010) Source: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (UNDESA). 2013. World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision. New York: United Nations.
- 4. LOW CEREAL YIELDS IN SUB- SAHARAN AFRICA
- 5. PRODUCTION CHALLENGES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA • MORE THAN 200 MILLION PEOPLE—OR 27 PERCENT OF THE POPULATION—IN SUB- SAHARAN AFRICA ARE UNDERNOURISHED. • LAND DEGRADATION AFFECTS 65 PERCENT OF AFRICA’S LAND; SOME 6 MILLION HECTARES OF PRODUCTIVE LAND ARE LOST EACH YEAR. Source: World Resources Institute. 2013. Installment 4 of “Creating a Sustainable Food Future:” Improving Land and Water Management.
- 6. APPROACHES FOR BOOSTING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY RAINWATER HARVESTING AGROFORESTRY CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE INTEGRATED SOIL FERTILITY MANAGEMENT INTEGRATED LANDSCAPE APPROACHES Photo credit: IFDC
- 7. AGROFORESTRY AND WATER HARVESTING COULD BE SCALED UP ON 300 MILLION HECTARES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
- 8. PRESENTATIONS ON LANDSCAPE RESTORATION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA • Landscape restoration: insights from successful experiences in Ethiopia • Scaling up landscape restoration: insights from the Sahel • Benefits and drivers of increased tree cover on farms in Malawi • Assessing changes in the density of trees on farms in Malawi
- 9. FORMAT OF THE SESSION • Series of four presentations followed by a few questions and answers (15 minutes each) • General discussion (20- 30 minutes) – Highlights of findings from the presentations – Key recommendations for national action plans
Editor's Notes
- With reference to Mike’s comments, perhaps we can include a slide here that contains a short, bulleted list of the 4-5 top takeaways. May be a good idea to leave this final slide up as the group moves into the Q&A part—to let the big messages percolate in people’s minds and tee up discussion.
- Another supply constraint when it comes to food production in some watersheds will be freshwater availability or quality.
- In this paper, we profile four of the most promising improved land and water management practices that are particularly relevant to the drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa: Agroforestry—the deliberate integration of woody perennial plants―trees and shrubs―with crops or livestock on the same tract of land. Conservation agriculture—a combination of reduced tillage, retention of crop residues or maintenance of cover crops, and crop rotation or diversification. Rainwater harvesting—low-cost practices―such as planting pits, stone bunds, and earthen trenches along slopes―that capture and collect rainfall before it runs off farm fields. Integrated soil fertility management—the combined use of judicious amounts of mineral fertilizers and soil amendments such as manure, crop residues, compost, leaf litter, lime, or phosphate rock. In many situations, sustaining or improving agricultural productivity will require coordination between resource users situated in different parts of the larger landscape, including in non-farmed lands, wetlands, forests, and rangelands. Integrated landscape approaches bring sectors and stakeholders together to jointly plan, design, and manage their landscapes for improved agricultural production, ecosystem conservation, and sustainable livelihoods. In other words, it integrates all of the practices – and reinforces overall sustainable land use and increased productivity at the landscape level. (Original notes) Water harvesting helps with soil moisture and groundwater recharge Agroforestry helps with nitrogen and soil organic matter (and water) But soil still lacks P and K So, to boost yields, micro-dosing of fertilizers could help. But soil must first be prepared to increase fertilizer-use efficiency. Therefore, the first two should be done first. The most sustainable and effective approach would be to develop a foundation for integrated soil fertility management and increased agricultural productivity through the combination of basic practices in improved land use and sustainable land management, together with cost effective and efficient use of inputs needed to build up soil fertility.
- Animation is here—on click shows impacts in terms of nutrition