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Regenerative agriculture is a conservation and rehabilitation approach to food and farming systems. From humble beginnings, today over five million hectares of farmland have been revegetated in niger alone, largely by direct farmer to farmer exchange of information. Beginning in the 1980s, a new method of reforestation, farmer managed natural regeneration fmnr, became an increasingly popular solution to the rapid deforestation problem. Tony rinaudo presents an excellent introduction to the farmer managed natural regeneration project model fmnr pm of the agriculturefood security community of practice in world vision. Farmer managed natural regeneration united nations. Farmer managed natural regeneration has made a tremendous impact across swaths of west and east africa where trees had been cleared for agriculture. I have followed the development of farmer managed natural regeneration fmnr since its very beginning in niger during the early 1980s.
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