GLOBAL WORKING GROUP Discussions Outcomes 12042012

BEATING FAMINEWorld Agroforestry Centre

NairobiApril 10-13, 2012

Purpose

Explore the concept of having a new network to foster global collaboration, information exchange, and capacity building to support the community of nations engaged in scaling-up evergreen agriculture, and assisting them to overcome the barriers to adoption

IDEA: Create a network based on a movement

Evergreen agriculture is out of the box – capture the moment and create a new global network

Network platform

Who is the platform for?- NGOs, Research, Govt. – - Grassroots network with links into higher

Who should be involved?- Herding Cats: Can’t start with everyone- Take the lead and invite participation

The Host: - Research/NGO Partnership (non-political)

Eg WAC needs WV and visa-versa

What would it do?

1. Science to provide an evidence base2. Support/facilitate project delivery3. Global promotion/funding

Time for us to take collective action

1. Clearinghouse for the Evidence Base and Support Research and key Barriers to Scaling-up.

– Satisfy the need for hard data– Inform, validate, integrate with operatives.– Collaboration to get long term evidence from

program M&E – Interview farmers to find the modifications then find

the evidence/science that explains or validates it ( or questions it)

– Highlight relationships with outcomes/goals (next)

Articulate the link between Evergreen Ag and key outcomes

– Nutrition: relationship between increase in agricultural productivity and wellbeing.

– Health: children, disease, – Social/Political Issues (refugees,

security etc)– Carbon Sequestration– Gender issues– Highlight why it takes time to

achieve sustainable change (fight the 18mth target mentality)

2. Facilitating and supporting extension, capacity building and on ground projects.

– Training people on the ground– Coordination and networking– Developing industrial tree product markets,

value chains– Guiding project methods (prizes, extension)– Facilitating farmer-to-farmer learning

between projects and countries– Policy changes in countries and regions to

support Evergreen Ag– Provide privileged access to

research/technical support for on-ground projects

3. Promoting Evergreen Ag to the Donors and Governments and their community.

– Engaging the urban community into the re-greening of rural lands

– Highlighting how other policies (trade) impact on Re- greening

– Advocating/promoting the link between Evergreen Ag to outcomes: children, women, livelihoods

– Develop and promote the BRAND (Advertising)– Influence International meetings (Rio +20) by

engaging with powerful and giving them the credit

From big planting programs driven by global needs (holding back the desert/carbon/famine) to farmers doing it themselves for their own benefit (with global spinoffs).

Change the Re-greening paradigm

Global Working Group’s Key message

Branding statements:

Evergreen Agriculture: ‘Regreening by farmers for farmers’.

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Not our message but a message from 160 million farmers:

1. As farmers we want trees for our own sustainable and resilient food security and livelihoods systems

2. Our ‘friends’ have the science, people, knowledge, and means to help us help ourselves.

3. If we do what is good for us – it will be good for the global community (Social, biodiversity, carbon)

- $5 Mn – to create the global fund- $5Mn- promote the brand - $10 Mn – pilots to create data, research – evidence of links with health, livelihoods, etc.Demonstrate short, medium and long term outcomesIdentify means by which practise is promoted - $30 Mn – strategic investment to create expansion (training, resources, M&E, examples)

$50 Million to start