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We have conducted two stakeholder workshop meetings in Manyoni and Ikungi districts of the Singida region to seek all-stakeholder support (government, religious, public, private), and introducing The Regreening Singida Program which will be implemented by us and Justdiggit . In these meetings the community leaders are engaged and encouraged to positively influence socio-cultural norms, manage conflict over resources, and inspire community values, beliefs and practices that support the environment restoration using nature based solutions like FMNR and Rainwater Harvesting technique.

The number of Fanya Juu and Chini in our project area in Dodoma has increased from 373 to 2,299 in one year time. The total length increased from 15,000 meters to 75,000 meters Farmers in Dodoma, Tanzania learned and are now implementing a regreening technique to use next to Kisiki Hai: Fanya Juu and Fanya Chini. Fanya Chini means ‘throw it downwards’: rainwater that hits the soil just outside of the farmer’s land is caught in trenches, so the farmer’s fertile

In Tanzania, 80% of rural population relies on utilization of natural resources to sustain their livelihood, tree products being among them. We are grateful seeing farmers practicing sustainable tree harvesting adopted from our facilitation sessions. Beside cutting down of trees, a large number of them die due to poor harvesting methods of different parts such as roots, barks, branches, for different uses like medicines, fodder, construction poles, fuelwood etc. In our regreening programs where we engage farmer and pastoralist to practice

Koileni began restoring trees in Arusha, Tanzania after receiving FMNR training from us in January 2021. Since then, she has restored 45 of the local Mduguyu tree that provides many benefits, including firewood from pruned branches, herbs, fodder and its branches are used to build local fences for homes. Koileni plans to restore more trees and spread tree restoration knowledge to her neighborhood as well. What a CHAMP!

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How “farmer-managed natural regeneration” is taking hold on the African continent and beyond . . Dr. Bishop Simon Chiwanga and Tony Rinaudo will speak on FMNR at the Global Landscapes Forum’s upcoming digital conference Restoring Africa’s Drylands: Accelerating Action On the Ground, 2–3 June. Register to join here. . In the Dodoma region of Tanzania, an old farmer named Mr. Augustino had lived long enough to see the hills near his home go from being covered with trees to almost entirely barren. It had once

In 2019 we started The Kiboriani Mountain range Reforestation and Beekeeping Project aiming at improving people’s livelihoods and climate change resilience through restoration of farm and pastoral land, and scaling up forest friendly economic activities, in particular beekeeping which would encourage conserving Kiboriani forests. We distributed over 300 beehives to best performing farmers in Kisiki Hai. Two years later, we are happy to see that our vision is been fulfilled, farmers have started to harvest honey from the beehives, this plays

An update on our PMNR project in Monduli, the first vegetation has broken through after a change in the landscape! The half moon bunds and the rains have caused the change. The lost jungle is about to resurrect 🌿 Three months ago we dug 5,000 bunds in Monduli district Arusha.These water bunds help to harvest rainwater which will allow pastoralists in monduli inhabiting the most degraded landscapes to restore their pastures lands and farm soils. This will have a positive effect

To spread the word about regreening among farmers and pastoralists, together with Justdiggit ,KAIOS and Tigo we started a pilot to test the success of regreening via a Regreen App that works on a smart feature phone. Our new Regreen App now provides 300 farmers with knowledge on Kisiki Hai regreening technique and supports them in applying this technique through tutorials, radio programs, success stories and dramas. With affordable KaiOS enabled devices we are able to connect farmers in rural Dodoma Tanzania