About Us

Who we are

Forum for Natural Regeneration LBG (FONAR) is a Ghanaian environmental NGO established in 2014. FONAR works in Northern Ghana with diverse stakeholders and partners to restore degraded agricultural landscapes through community-driven approaches that improve livelihoods, enhance food security and build climate change resilience for sustainable development.

What We Do

Promote, demonstrate and encourage implementation of FMNR among small scale farmers.

Promote and support FMNR and Agroforestry education in schools to foster climate-smart land management skills among children and young people.

Advocate for FMNR recognition and scaling up in the design of climate-smart agroforestry and NRM policy measures.

Provide FMNR capacity building and training.

FONAR promotes the adoption and scaling up of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) as a simple, low cost and feasible climate smart agroforestry technique for agricultural landscape restoration in Ghana’s semi-dry Northern Savannah Regions. Rural small scale farmers in Northern Ghana are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of land degradation and climate change.
FMNR is a quick, low cost and easily replicable method of restoring and improving agricultural, forested and pasture lands for improved livelihoods and biodiversity conservation.
FMNR is a farmer and community-led systematic regrowth of existing native trees and shrubs. It can be applied wherever there are living tree stumps with the ability to coppice (re-sprout) or seeds in the soil that will germinate. Integrated into cropping systems and grazing areas, FMNR supports improved soil fertility, reduced erosion, increased biodiversity, and access to essen1al resources like 1mber, firewood, fodder and wild foods.

Our Management Team

1

Sumaila S. Saaka

Executive Director

2

Juliana Abasemah Atagra

Head, Finance/Administration

3

Christopher N. Pubeng

Head, Programmes

Our Board Of Directors

FONAR has a five-member Board of Directors as its highest decision-making organ, including the substantive Executive Director as Member Secretary. The Board provides advice and organizational leadership to help FONAR achieve its vision and mission. Presented below are brief profiles of the Board members.

Patrick A. Akolgo

Commissioner of Police (Rtd)

Robert A. Alibo

Development Practitioner

Titus O. Alzumah

Development Expert

Tony Rinaudo, AM

Global Advisor

Our Donors and Partners