Managing Water and Land Management - Keynote
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Dennis Garrity, UN Drylands Ambassador and former Director General of ICRAF, gave a keynote speech at WLE's side event at the 7th Africa Agriculture Science Week in Kigali, Rwanda on June 14, 2016. It focused on how natural resources could be best managed to ensure the productivity, equity and sustainability of agriculture in Africa, with concrete recommendations for the program and its partners.
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Managing Water and Land Management - Keynote
- 1. Managing water and land resources The essential pathway to unlocking Africa’s agricultural potential Dennis Garrity
- 2. The Food Production Challenge in Perspective • Hunger is overwhelmingly rural, so the real challenge is to assist the 100 million smallholders to produce more food and income in Africa, and • To restore, regenerate and sustain the natural resource base for future food production.
- 3. Trend in biomass productivity by farming system Alarming Land Degradation in Africa
- 5. 17 countries have made commitments including: • Ethiopia 15 million hectares • Kenya 5 million hectares • Uganda 2.5 million hectares • Rwanda 2 million hectares Total commitments are now about 45 m hectares by countries in West, Central, East and Southern Africa. 19 Political commitment to scale up restoration successes is growing!
- 6. WATER and Restoration LAND and Restoration ECOSYSTEMS and Restoration
- 7. The Billion Dollar Business Plan for 2 Million Farm Ponds in Africain
- 8. From Subsistence to Small-Scale Commercial Enterprises: The Lare Case Example • Farmers in Lare, Kenya have the highest density of farm ponds per km2 • 5,000 farm ponds installed • Pond water used for supplementary irrigation on drought-prone farms
- 9. Billion Dollar Business Plan System
- 10. WATER and Restoration LAND and Restoration ECOSYSTEMS and Restoration
- 11. A Desertifying Landscape Southern Niger in the 1980s
- 12. The Parkland Renaissance on Niger Farmlands
- 13. Farmer-Managed Regeneration of trees has been massively upscaled on the croplands in Niger
- 14. Major agroforestry regions in West Africa and potential directions of expansion
- 15. Malawi Maize Lands Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration Expanding Widely
- 16. Conservation agriculture with reduced tillage and trees increases productivity while restoring land quality and reducing labor.
- 17. - 100,000 200,000 300,000 400,000 500,000 600,000 700,000 800,000 900,0001,000,000 Kigali East North South West Closed Forest Woodland/Tree Crops Cropland Savanna/ Prairie/Shrubland Grassland Urban Area Water bodies Land use (ha) – RwandaLand that is: - agricultural -non-forested -sloping (5-55%). Rwanda’s plan for restoration interventions
- 18. The European Commission Challenge to Scale-Up EverGreen Agriculture to 50 million farmers in Africa Building a baseline and tracking system
- 19. 18 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
- 21. More than Food: Societal Demands from Agricultural Landscapes
- 22. For More Information and to Get Engaged Evergreen Agriculture web site www.evergreenagriculture.net Email contact: d.garrity@cgiar.org