Tony Rinaudo

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Tony Rinaudo (born January 19, 1957 ) is an Australian agronomist .

He was awarded the Right Livelihood Award - also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize - in 2018 together with Yacouba Sawadogo . Rinaudo developed in the 1980s and 1990s, the reforestation technique "farmer-managed natural regeneration" (FMNR) , trees are used to help out the hidden under the desert sand root systems. In this way, parts of the Sahel zone were successfully planted again. Using this method, he and his team were able to plant over 200 million new trees in the Sahel region. In total there are currently 6 million hectares with an average tree density of around 40 trees. (As of 2004)

literature

  • Johannes Dieterich (Ed.): Tony Rinaudo - Der Waldmacher , Verlag Rüffer & Rub, Zurich, 2018, ISBN 978-3-906304-18-2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The forest maker. SWR, September 20, 2019, accessed on December 12, 2018 (German).
  2. ↑ http://www.geo.de/natur/nachhaltigkeit/20772-rtkl-tony-rinaudo-dieser-mann-verwandelt-wueste-bluehende-landschaften (Access: May 20, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Rinaudo, Tony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian agronomist
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1957