Case study: Talensi, Ghana

A case study on the Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) project in Talensi, Ghana, detailing how a low-cost land restoration technique has improved soil fertility, increased crop yields, and enhanced the climate resilience of over 10,000 smallholder farmers.

• The Talensi district in northern Ghana faces significant climate-related challenges, including erratic annual rainfall, intermittent droughts (defined as three or more weeks without significant rain), unusually high temperatures from March to April, and annual flooding along the White Volta, all of which have reduced crop yields and washed away harvests.
• The Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) project, sponsored by World Vision Ghana and supported by World Vision Australia, utilizes a low-cost technique of systematically regrowing and managing trees and shrubs from existing felled tree stumps to restore degraded lands and improve soil health.
• Implemented in three phases between 2009 and 2020, the FMNR project has restored over 2,000 hectares of degraded land and benefited more than 10,000 farmers through conservation practices such as zero/minimum tillage, stone bund walls, and the use of compost and crop residue mulching.
• The project has led to measurable environmental and socio-economic improvements, including an 80% reduction in annual bush fires, increased soil fertility and crop yields, improved household food security, and higher household incomes and savings.

APA

Kokutse, F. (2020). Case study: Talensi, Ghana. Good Governance Africa. https://gga.org/working-from-the-ground-up/

Chicago

Kokutse, Francis. Case study: Talensi, Ghana. Good Governance Africa, 2020. https://gga.org/working-from-the-ground-up/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{kokutse2020case, author = {Kokutse, Francis}, title = {{Case study: Talensi, Ghana}}, institution = {Good Governance Africa}, year = {2020}, month = oct, url = {https://gga.org/working-from-the-ground-up/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }