FMNR: Dealing with Obstacles

Exercise:

Discuss with person next to you -

1. make a list of possible obstacles to adoption of FMNR - from the community - from your organization

2. how will you overcome each obstacle?

(10 minutes)

Opposition from community and individuals in the community.

The importance of ownership –

Who owns the problem?

Exercise for communities:

1.What were environmental conditions like when you were a child? (water, crop yields, soil fertility and erosion, wildlife, wind speed, temperatures and rainfall,

2. What is the environment like now?

3. What will the environment be like for your children if you do nothing to change the situation?

Constant grazing by livestock

Second year of enclosure –

Pastures have been restored!

Damage by outsiders and nomads.

Regular bushfires from a culture of burning and/or accidental fires.

Tree cutting and making charcoal?

We can’t stop – “this is our only source of income and food”

“We don’t have any other skills”Charcoal makers.

Alternative income generating schemes –

- Honey

- Vegetable gardening

Lack of tree/land ownership or user rights =

No incentive for individual or communal action.

Gov’t granted Legal Forest User Rights.

Forest User Rights

2. Cooperative formation.

4. FMNR training and management plan developed.

3. By-laws

established.

Certified Wood Market establishedBase price for wood: farmer33% profit – farmer33% profit – social committee33% profit – forestry service.

Facilitate Market linkages

Land tenure

Institutional Obstacles

lack of buy-in by leadership / ADP manager

Too busy / other priorities

lack of funding

not seen as a priority “we are a child- focussed organization” FMNR not in the AoP

FMNR is a no regrets technology.

Village scale, district scale, national scale ….. International..

“If you have nothing to lose, and everything to gain, then by all means go for it”.