{"id":3299,"date":"2015-09-23T17:14:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T15:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/?p=3299"},"modified":"2026-05-14T15:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:06:17","slug":"pepinieres-reforestation-0915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/pepinieres-reforestation-0915\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree nurseries: the first step toward reforestation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you know? Between 2000 and 2010, the Comoros experienced the highest rate of deforestation in the world. This initial finding guided Dahari\u2019s approach to natural resource management. Today, as part of its program to combat deforestation, the NGO has established community nurseries where both forest and fruit trees are grown.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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The community-based natural resource management program is taking shape on the ground<\/strong>\u00a0since the beginning of 2014, in partnership with CIRAD and with funding from the European Union. The first nurseries were established in May 2015 in the three pilot villages: Adda, Outsa, and Ouzini. Fruit trees\u2014such as avocado, mandarin, and breadfruit\u2014are being grown there. After a few years, these species will provide additional income for the landowners. The villagers have also decided to plant mkindri, fouantsi and mpapa. These are endemic forest trees that are important to preserve, both for the heritage of the Comoros and for biodiversity. The nurseries are considered \"community-based\": the trees are propagated, maintained, and monitored by the management committees in each village.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The management committees are composed of village residents, most of whom are farmers. They have received specific training to carry out their role in managing the nurseries. The training sessions were provided by the team from the Ulanga association in Mr\u00e9mani.<\/strong>\u00a0The theoretical component focused on the fundamentals of establishing a tree nursery, specifically: the role of trees, the types of containers suited to different plants, the plant growth cycle, the ideal size for wild-sourced seedlings, techniques for collecting such seedlings from the forest, site preparation for the nursery, soil quality, filling and arranging containers, plant maintenance, and watering.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The practical portion of the training began with the collection of wild seedlings, which were uprooted in such a way that the main root remained intact. Then, after lightly trimming the leaves and removing some of the secondary roots, the participants potted the seedlings.\u00a0In total, six days of training were organized across the three villages, and 3,500 seedlings were potted during this time.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Today, the nurseries contain approximately 4,000 seedlings, the largest of which reach a height of 30 to 50 cm. The maintenance of the nurseries by the communities is a success, and we are preparing to carry out\u00a0an initial reforestation in December 2015<\/strong>\u00a0 in the Hamkabu zone for the village of Adda, Magouni for the village of Ouzini, and Ngambo for Outsa.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Le saviez-vous\u00a0? Les Comores souffrent du taux de d\u00e9forestation le plus \u00e9lev\u00e9 au monde entre 2000 et 2010. C\u2019est le constat initial qui a guid\u00e9 Dahari dans la gestion des ressources naturelles. Aujourd\u2019hui, dans le cadre du programme de lutte contre la d\u00e9forestation, l\u2019ONG a mis en place des p\u00e9pini\u00e8res communautaires dans lesquelles poussent des […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-programme-agroforets"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12766,"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions\/12766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3299"}],"curies":[{"name":"There are no reviews for this movie on this website.","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}