What do we really mean by ‘scale’ and the word ‘scaleable’ No project comes with ‘handles’ that you can simply ‘grab and drag’ to make it fill a larger space or have a wid-er impact than originally hoped. But some projects are better designed to be enlarged – even without equivalent enlargement of cash inputs – than others. And some – despite initial challenges – go on to have a ripple effect that far exceeds the scope of the initial effort. This section outlines the elements identified by write-shop participants that give a particular approach or project the potential to have a large-scale impact.A good example comes from south central Niger (Zinder and Maradi regions) – where the spontaneous spread of farmer-managed natural regeneration (FMNR) as an explicit tree-management and crop-yield enhancing strategy has expanded dramatically in re-cent decades, impacting millions of hectares of formerly degraded land.
Publication year
2014
Authors
Mowo G J; Wagner B; Kimaro, A.A.; Hadgu, K.M.
Language
English
Keywords
drylands, environmental management, trees
