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Niger's farmer-managed natural regeneration
Across southern Niger, farmers restored trees to cropland by selecting, pruning, and protecting shoots from living stumps and roots. The resulting regreening spread through observation, farmer exchange, and changing tree rights rather than a single planting campaign, showing how ecological recovery can become durable when cultivators can govern what already lives in the soil.
How can cultivators restore a dry farming landscape when seedlings often fail, public forestry rules weaken local incentives, and recovery must improve livelihoods before it can spread?