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20 farmers receive training in beekeeping

... — Mon, 12 May 2025 02:48:08 +0000

The Forum for Natural Regeneration (FONAR) has organised a three-day modern beekeeping training for 20 Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) Lead Farmers in the Dasang and Kparaboug communities in Nabdam District of the Upper East Region. A total of 20 participants, including 10 men and 10 women drawn from the two communities, were trained in […]

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FONAR advocates safe farming practices through agrochemical education

... — Thu, 01 May 2025 12:13:14 +0000

The Forum for Natural Regeneration (FONAR), an environmental-focused organisation, has organized a one-day training on use of agrochemicals for Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) lead farmers in the Nabdam District. A total of 20 farmers, drawn from the Kparaboug and Dasang communities, suburb communities of the Sakoti community, were equipped with skills to safely handle […]

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Talensi school children receive tools to promote environmental conservation and FMNR

... — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 19:47:44 +0000

The Forum for Natural Regeneration (FONAR), an environmentally focused non-governmental has donated essential equipment to basic school children in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region to support environmental conservation efforts and encourage the practice of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR). The donation, which valued at GHS36,000.00 had funding from the Heidehof Foundation of […]

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Rural smallholder farmers trained on compost manure production

... — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 20:52:58 +0000

High prices of chemical fertilizer and loss of soil fertility due to excessive use of inorganic manure continue to pose challenges to sustainable agriculture production for smallholder farmers. Poor rural smallholder farmers continue to face food and nutritional insecurity due to low yields produced on unfertile lands, coupled with the impact of climate change […]

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Empowering children to preserve the environment, fight climate change’

... — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 08:20:58 +0000

Stakeholders in environmental protection have expressed the need to leverage the potential of children to protect the environment, restore degraded lands and mitigate climate change impacts. Environmental destruction, they said, continued to be a major challenge for many countries, leading to worsening climatic impacts on sectors such as agriculture and water, which threatened the achievement […]

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NGO sensitises farmers on advanced natural regeneration concept

... — Mon, 15 May 2023 21:07:25 +0000

The Forum for Natural Regeneration (FONAR), an environmentally focused non-governmental organisation has sensitised farmers in the Nabdam District, Upper East Region, on an advanced concept of the Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) technology. Lead farmers from two farming communities, Karaboug and Dasang in the district were introduced to the concept of the technology and their […]

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Gov’t urged to scale up approaches to address forest degradation

... — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 10:37:17 +0000

Government has been urged to scale up approaches of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) to support national re-greening strategies to address forest and landscapes degradation and mitigate climate change impacts. Stakeholders at an engagement at Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region said the initiative had the potential of restoring tree and vegetation cover, degraded lands […]

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Minister express worry over actions of some Fulani herdsmen

... — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 20:30:37 +0000

Mr Stephen Yakubu, the Upper East Regional Minister, says the Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) concept is a sustainable land and forest restoration strategy with the greatest potential to complementing government’s Green Ghana initiative to mitigate climate change. He, therefore, joined the advocacy to have the concept incorporated into national policies and programmes and pledged […]

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