Turning deserts into an Oasis
In the African Sahel, a country called Niger bordering the Sahara Desert, the largest desert in the world is stopping desertification and turning its deserts into an Oasis. Regenerative Agriculture is leading the way with a technique called Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration or FMNR. FMNR was pioneered in the 1980s by Tony Rinaudo an Australian Agronomist who is widely known as a forest maker. The innovative technique has been adopted by local farmers through peer-to-peer learning making it cost-effective and easy to implement. Over the last 40 years, the visual results and the data have shown FMNR has been extremely successful in turning desert into farmland. It has regenerated 5 million hectors of degraded land, 200 million trees have been restored, and has benefited 2.5 million people increasing household income by 18-24% the available arable land has doubled since the severe droughts of the 1970s, and tree density has 10x since its all-time low in the 1980s. This is an extraor