The Forest Underground, Tony Rinaudo
The Forest Underground, Tony Rinaudo
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The Forest Underground
Hope for a Planet in Crisis

Author: Tony Rinaudo

Narrator: Tim Dehn

Unabridged: 6 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/18/2023

Synopsis

Winner of the Australian Christian Book of the Year Award 2022How do you regreen millions of hectares of land without planting a single tree? The remarkable discovery story of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) is told in Tony Rinaudo’s new autobiography, The Forest Underground: Hope for a Planet in Crisis, published in 2022 by ISCAST–Christians in Science and Technology. This audiobook offers tangible hope for climate change through a powerful story of God’s grace and guidance. In a seemingly hopeless crisis, this is the good-news story that will move hearts and hands to care more for God’s creation.

About Tony Rinaudo

In his seventeen years in Niger, missionary agronomist Tony Rinaudo discovered a simple method of regreening land without planting a single tree. The technique he pioneered—together with local farmers—came to be known as Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration, or FMNR. It has since reduced our carbon footprint, and transformed millions of lives and livelihoods. For his influential contributions, Tony has received the Right Livelihood Award and was appointed as a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia. He is now the Principal Climate Action Advisor with World Vision.

About Tim Dehn

Tim Dehn is an English voice actor in Melbourne who has worked with local and international television and radio broadcasters. He has recorded for a wide variety of media, including corporate, training, and documentary voiceovers, radio programs such as ABC Classic and 3MBS, commercials, and audiobooks for the Christian Blind Mission for vision-impaired listeners.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Philip

When you cut a tree down, half of it remains. Underground. Tony Rinaudo, working as a Christian missionary in Niger, started a movement, regenerating former forests back to life. But wait, there's more. Trees WITH crops, makes for stronger crops. And there's more. Read the book. And learn. Before it......more

Goodreads review by Christine

I came into this book with all the wrong expectations. I hoped to learn more about land restoration but it felt more like a book meant to proselytize Tony's beliefs.......more

Goodreads review by Steve

Just brilliant. An easy book to read, covering a topic that is both heartbreaking yet hopeful. This has helped me to see a reql answer to some of humanity's greatest problems. Tony & Liz are real heroes.......more

Goodreads review by Dave

I grew to love Tony, his work, his passion, and his personality through this book. What an incredible man, used by God to bring restoration to that which had been degraded. Only reason I can't give it 5-stars is because I found the book a really awkward size and shape!! Like, is it a coffee table bo......more

Goodreads review by Norah

I really enjoyed this story of work being done to improve land management through Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) and reforestation in Niger and across Africa. It provides a hopeful picture for the future. Our Earth needs more such projests.......more

Quotes

“For years I have longed to see this biography written. And it lives up to my every hope…This is a story of breathtaking global impact. Indeed, it may yet save us all!” Tim Costello, CEO of World Vision Australia, 2004–2016

“No research program—no matter how well funded—would have come up with this idea, because it expertly combines the subtleties of location-specific tree selection with farmer-specific opportunities and constraints.” Richard Stirzaker, Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO

“Tony Rinaudo is a shining example of what perseverance and courage can achieve…As we face an aggravating climate crisis, Tony’s example gives hope. I am certain that his visionary work has the potential to change the world.” Ole von Uexkull, Executive Director of Right Livelihood

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