Thank you.

While it's certainly not the only factor, climate change affects a lot of climate variables like rainfall and drought times. It would be mad to say it has no influence

@@RHIMYM make sure to get your next safe and effective jab peasant. And put on another mask.

I know what you mean. But a lot of aid agencies have to blame climate change in order to survive. If they blamed the political system, bully boys would come round and threaten them.

It doesn't. It seems to me that most of these videos are poor copies of another copy of a copy of the theory. For it to work, the selecting and pruning is instead of cutting them all off and grazing continuously. So it is allowing regrowth of the stumps, but using some of the sprouts of desirable species and all of undesirable species, and protecting them. Pruning is almost a distraction, something to do to promote buy in and a sense of ownership, they would grow just as well without pruning. The big difference between this and traditional tree planting is the use of existing surviving native roots, which is a HUGE advantage. The pruning provides some fodder and an active element.

See another KZbin video: "Step-by-step process: Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR)" for a better explanation of this method.

@@rodfreess6019 Wrong. Pruning mulches the ground, accelerates the nutrient cycling and also promotes growth by rejuvenating the plants and keeping them in a vegetative stage (which feeds the ground with root exudates and makes it hold more moisture). Heavy pruning is, in fact, also the key in synthropic farming, and there's tons of farms who applied it successfully. One difference I see is in synthropic they don't kill non-natives, they plant them and use them to their advantage (eg: pollarding eucalyptus twice a year to feed the food trees).