The Earth is undergoing desertification. In the coming decades, many temperate regions risk experiencing severe water stress: aridity is becoming a daily reality. It is time to take this issue seriously.

To counteract the negative effects of aridification, trees are essential: reintroducing them wherever possible is an urgent climate and environmental necessity. It is also a critical issue for agriculture, as soils suffer from the loss of ancient tree cover. Trees are the most powerful and cost-effective means to rapidly restore living soils.

Inventing the agroforestry of tomorrow for arid zones requires drawing inspiration from regions with a long-standing agroforestry intelligence built over millennia. That is the purpose of this book, which highlights the practices and knowledge of farmers and agro-pastoralists from Morocco, but also from the Sahel, Ethiopia, Spain, and Corsica.

With:

Geneviève Michon, ethnobotanist and research director at IRD

Geneviève Michon has worked on all continents. Her scientific rigor, combined with great generosity, has enabled her to acquire extensive experience in understanding the functioning of anthropized ecosystems known as agro-systems.

By traveling from mountain to mountain and from tribe to tribe, often under conditions of total immersion, she has been able to showcase, through numerous and diverse writings, the ingenuity of peasant knowledge in the sustainable management of natural resources in ecologically and socially diverse environments.

📌 This webinar will be held online, recorded, and made available on the IRD Canal U platform.