Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration- the treasure lies dormantbeneath your fee

摘要

There's a saying that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Tony Rinaudo, Principal Advisor Natural Resources for World Vision, couldn't agree more.In the 1980s, Tony Rinaudo left his native Australia to work as a missionary in Niger. Tony discovered what he called an underground forest, a deep root system which allowed shrubs to regrow into trees when pruned properly. Tony persuaded a number of farmers, despite the scepticism of the custom in Niger, to start cultivating the root systems underneath the Sahel's barren soil, firstly into shrubs which re-sprouted through pruning and then into trees.