Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) in Practice

This video offers a step-by-step guide on how communities can implement the Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) approach so as to increase tree cover on their farmlands. This helps to boost the fertility of degraded lands, leading to bumper harvests and increased pasture that improves livestock production. Farmers that have embraced the FMNR technique can also get additional income from tree and non-tree-based products such as charcoal, firewood, fruits, pasture, beekeeping and medicine from medicinal trees.

[@veskakemboi2765]

So insightful

[@krishividhi3680]

Very nice technic.

[@ziggypan4418]

🙏🙏🙏

[@martinfalkenberg2419]

It is really working, also in very dry countries

[@imtheeastgermanguy5431]

It would be a good idea to try fmnr in critical areas like Somalia and these countries who are suffering from droughts caused by deforestation. I think every day if I just break up in Germany and go to Africa to try to improve their lives and do something useful with my own life

[@colleeneggertson2117]

See the CZcams video called: "How the Sahara Desert is Turning into a Farmland Oasis - GREENING THE DESERT PROJECT" for a more complete explanation of this FMNR method.

[@dontknowdontcare2531]

so how does pruning tree stumps help do any of that

[@rodfreess6019]

It doesn't. It seems to me that most of these videos are poor copies of another copy of a copy of the theory. For it to work, the selecting and pruning is instead of cutting them all off and grazing continuously. So it is allowing regrowth of the stumps, but using some of the sprouts of desirable species and all of undesirable species, and protecting them. Pruning is almost a distraction, something to do to promote buy in and a sense of ownership, they would grow just as well without pruning. The big difference between this and traditional tree planting is the use of existing surviving native roots, which is a HUGE advantage. The pruning provides some fodder and an active element.

[@colleeneggertson2117]

See another CZcams video: "Step-by-step process: Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR)" for a better explanation of this method.

[@tomatito3824]

@@rodfreess6019 Wrong. Pruning mulches the ground, accelerates the nutrient cycling and also promotes growth by rejuvenating the plants and keeping them in a vegetative stage (which feeds the ground with root exudates and makes it hold more moisture). Heavy pruning is, in fact, also the key in synthropic farming, and there's tons of farms who applied it successfully. One difference I see is in synthropic they don't kill non-natives, they plant them and use them to their advantage (eg: pollarding eucalyptus twice a year to feed the food trees).