Unpacking Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) as a Land Restoration Approach

📝 Event Description

In this interactive cross-learning event, we tackle one of the world’s most urgent challenges: land degradation, which affects 30% of global land and 3.2 billion people - with Africa’s productive land among the hardest hit.

Together, we’ll explore Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) - a proven, low-cost, and scalable approach that revitalizes landscapes by harnessing the natural regrowth of trees, existing root systems, or seed banks. FMNR combines simple, farmer-led techniques with transformative shifts in land management and mindset.

Join a dynamic exchange with landscape practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and community leaders from multiple African countries across the Great Green Wall. This event blends expert insights with peer-to-peer learning through engaging breakout sessions and rich dialogue.

💡 Why This Event Matters

Despite proven effectiveness of FMNR, it remains underutilized within the Great Green Wall. Greater awareness is needed to strengthen its value proposition, inform policy frameworks, and scale up its implementation. Similarly, building technical capacity and promoting behaviour change are all critical to mainstreaming FMNR.

As a farmer and community-led approach, FMNR’s success depends on understanding the local context, costs, effectiveness, opportunities, constraints, and most importantly farmers’ needs and aspirations. Equally important is identifying complementary practices and innovations that can enhance FMNR’s effectiveness, accelerating both regeneration and adoption.

Note: This is an online event with French - English simultaneous translation.

🔍 What to Expect

By the end of this interactive gathering, participants will:

• Acquire and deepen their understanding of FMNR and its contribution to land restoration within the Great Green Wall.
• Obtain practical knowledge on FMNR technical implementation and strategies to enhance natural regeneration.
• Learn how to adapt and introduce FMNR in diverse contexts, aligning interventions with the priorities and aspirations of stakeholders.
• Exchange experiences and identify lessons, best practices, and opportunities for scaling up FMNR.
• Strengthen networks and foster collaboration among stakeholders engaged in FMNR, agroforestry, and related restoration approaches

📅 Program Overview