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We are having a great month with awakentrees who have visited us to learn and get more experience from us on land restoration. Awaken Trees is a new organization based in Austria that supports local FMNR initiatives in Africa. Their mission is to fight both global warming and food scarcity through enabling communities to regenerate trees on their land. Awaken Trees is currently operating in Northern Ghana with its first partner FONAR (Forum for Natural Regeneration )- another project will start

Last week we conducted a four days training to 200+ of our champion farmers in the Singida Region. We trained them on FMNR or as we like to call it Kisiki Hai restoration technique, Rainwater harvesting technique and other lessons that will help them to inspire and activate their fellow farmers to restore their lands. This training was launched by the Singida Region Commissioner Hon. Dr. Binilith Mahenge. These enthusiastic champion farmers will inspire and educate around 34,000 other farmers in

February this year we dug thousands of bunds in Arusha, Tanzania. With the help of these half moon bunds, rainwater can infiltrate into the soil and eventually regreen the entire area. The first vegetation has already started to break through. By using landscape restoration technique, we can bring back the lost vegetation in the degraded lands. This improves the soil quality and allows more vegetation to grow.

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