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Winner of Alternative Nobel Prize 2018

The Australian agronomist Tony Rinaudo revolutionized reforestation in Africa with Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR). His method is based on deploying tree stumps and roots that still grow even in degraded landscapes: thanks to the protection and care of the shoots, the original tree population can be regenerated without major financial costs. The method is now successfully applied in at least 24 African countries. Where the desert was still expanding 20 years ago, farmers reforest large areas with FMNR: in Niger alone seven million hectares of land were already restored in this way.

Up to 700 million people will most likely be obliged to leave their homelands during the next three decades because of increasing desertification in the landscapes where they live. In the opinion of scientists, there is only one hope: to convince the local farmers of ‘sustainable land management’. Tony Rinaudo believes that with FMNR he has found the appropriate method for such management—and just in time to stop, or even to be able to reverse the destruction of livelihoods.

Tony Rinaudo and his method of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) are the central theme of this book. In the initial report, Johannes Dieterich describes journeys with the ‘forest-maker’ to Ethiopia, Somaliland and Niger, where Rinaudo discovered the ‘underground forest’ almost 35 years ago. Rinaudo gives his personal account of how he developed the FMNR method and demonstrated its benefits to the local farmers. The agronomist Dennis Garrity discusses in his analysis the scientific facts about FMNR. And Günter Nooke, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Personal Representative for Africa, concludes with his political verdict on Rinaudo’s activities.

Tony Rinaudo received the Alternative Nobel Prize 2018 “for his impressive ability to transform vast arid areas into fertile soils, thereby improving the quality of life of millions of people.”

Content
Prologue | Johannes Dieterich

Tony’s Travails | Johannes Dieterich

Discovering the Underground Forest | Tony Rinaudo

FMNR is Now a Widely Scaled-Up Agricultural Practice

in the Drylands: A Robust Legacy of Tony Rinaudo’s

Career | Dennis Garrity

“Trust Would Be a Good Starting Point” | Interview with

Günter Nooke

Postscript | Tony Rinaudo


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