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Regreening Africa and Value Chains

Regreening Africa and the Great Green Wall

Enhancing tree use rights in the Sahel

New guide to improve the performance of indigenous tree species in the Sahel

Exclosure for land restoration and community resilience in Ethiopia

Home gardening enhances conservation and food security in Ethiopia

A Regreening Champion: The story of Emmanuel Biliguri as a community leader

How Women Are Tapping into Sustainable Land Management for Livelihoods and Landscape Restoration in Mali

Googo Community Becomes a Learning Hub Through Effective Local Leadership

Stimulating Economic inclusion through Savings for Transformation in Ghana

Sweetness for Income: Honey Value Chain Development in Rwanda

Shaping Landscape Restoration and Livelihoods in Rwanda through Cooperative Groups

Reflections from an Ambitious Land Restoration Programme in sub-Saharan Africa

Regreening Africa Close out Meeting: Perspectives From the Field in Rwanda

Inclusive and Evidence Based Approaches to Scaling Land Restoration Engagement Workshops

The Northern Ghana Restoration Initiative

Regreening Africa Insight Series

Beyond the Regreening Africa project: Catalysing change through the Northern Ghana Landscape Restoration Initiative

Stakeholders Consolidate the Restoration Movement to Expand Landscape Restoration in Kenya

Kenya National Landscape Restoration Scaling Conference 2022

Celebrating and Scaling Diverse Land Restoration Approaches to Benefit Livelihoods in Ethiopia

Thematic cross country learning events

Rwanda Stakeholders Build an Action Plan for Land Restoration

Land Restoration in Africa Delivers for People and Climate

Kenyan Schools Championing Regreening Initiatives

Landscape Restoration by Regreening Africa: 5 critical lessons from a massive Research in Development effort

Where to from here? Reflections from Senegal on Landscape Restoration

Regreening Africa Roundtable: Unlocking large-scale land restoration practices, approaches, and benefits in Sub-Saharan Africa

Expanding food systems and income sources for tree farmers in Migori County, Kenya

Farmers restoring degraded lands with FMNR techniques

Buzzing out on farmer-managed natural regeneration in Western Kenya

Home gardening: a multiple-win approach to land restoration

The Regreening Africa project is promoting and building capacity for home gardening in several African countries to address food insecurity, land degradation, and climate change impacts .

Tree health essential for tree-based restoration plans in Rwanda

Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration in Senegal – Samba’s Story

Faith in land restoration: lessons and insights

Can traditional gender norms shift?

Women farmers restoring landscapes and improving livelihoods in Rwanda

New guide to engaging communities in planning for sustainability

Regreening Africa: Prioritising gender inclusion and agency in land restoration

Meet the women behind the scenes of restoration in Kenya

Diversifying to enhance conservation and food security in Ghana

Farmers are benefiting from training in various sustainable agricultural and agroforestry practices by World Vision Ghana.

Sustainable farming and access to finance improves livelihoods in Ghana

Farmers have learned how to improve soil fertility, leading to increased yields and more savings for reinvestment.

A voice for youth in landscape restoration

As the current and future stewards of land restoration, youth need to act and speak up as advocates of land restoration.

Tree-based value chains: key to better livelihoods and conserved landscapes in Africa

Tree resources can provide a variety of economic, social and environmental benefits to local communities. Africa has a huge opportunity to increase the value of trees.

Gender dynamics affect management of land restoration

Gender dynamics are heavily influenced by gender norms. Understanding these is essential for designing effective gender transformative approaches.

Ghana community now knows that trees are life

After training, farmers have realised the benefits of trees and have changed their behaviours for the betterment of their own livelihoods and the future of their children and grandchildren.

‘I have not bewitched my husband’

Husbands helping with household chores after Gender Transformative Action training in Ghana has raised some eyebrows and delighted participating wives.

New guide for developing tree-based value chains

How to establish successful tree-based businesses is simply explained in a new publication

Fruit tree farming safeguards livelihoods for women in Baringo County

Farmers improve their livelihoods with proper management of avocado trees.

Women nursery operators shaping landscape restoration in Elgeyo Marakwet

Lives have been changed and a vast area is being regreened thanks to the dedication of the group of women.

Gender-transformative pathways in the regreening landscapes of Ghana

A reflection on the gender transformation approach that engages men and women to critically examine, challenge and question gender norms

Prioritize climate change issues to avert dire consequences

Government urged to prioritize climate change issues by devoting significant budgetary allocation to address the dire consequence it poses to the lives and livelihoods in Ghana

Trees aids farmers to reduce cost of fish feeds

Fish farmers incorporating tree planting to boos food production

Kenya’s landscape restorers commit to help communities and Government

Conference outcomes include strong partnerships and will to achieve results.

Catalyzing a movement for expanding Kenya’s landscape restoration

Diverse landscape restoration stakeholders join forces to catalyze a national landscape restoration movement in Kenya

Livelihood diversification through tree-based enterprises

This story of a successful breeder of tree seedlings is inspirational, demonstrating the power generated by capacity to drive change for the better.

Teaching children the importance of trees to better protect their environment

Building younger generations’ climate and restoration awareness and adaptation skills is critical for facing the challenges ahead wisely and safely.

Avocado, everyone?

Avocadoes help smallholders improve their livelihoods in the highlands of Baringo County, Kenya

Private sector contributes to Kenya’s land restoration

Kenya spreading the roots of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR)

Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) experts proposed the creation of an FMNR movement to network and synergize their efforts as they upscale to other different parts of Kenya where FMNR has not yet been introduced.

Restored the land? How do you know?

Kenya is moving towards coordinating the various monitoring tools used in the country so as to have a ‘one stop shop’ that collates all progress in restoration.

Restore your mental health: restore land!

Komb Green Solutions is restoring more than just land in Nairobi: it’s restoring people’s minds and health as well.

Young people leading restoration in Kenya

Inspirational youth are combining sport, arts, fun, passion, networking, science and technology to lead restoration of Kenya’s degraded lands.

Restoring degraded land in Kenya with Regreening Africa

Kenya comes together to restore landscapes

Kenya’s Bioenergy Strategy supported by World Agroforestry

Ethiopia’s ‘engagement landscape’: hope for the future

Niger formally adopts farmer-managed natural regeneration

A mobile application helps African farmers manage and restore their land

Farmers restore land in Africa with natural regeneration but how can we learn what practices work where and for whom?

A new generation of environmental activists: meet Kaluki Paul Mutuku

World Vision Rwanda commits to plant over 7 million trees

Agroforestry as part of Nature-Based Solutions: Exploring Evidence and Knowledge Gaps

Q+A: Building just societies and resilient landscapes alongside rural women

Gender equality key to sustainable resource management, says Markus Ihalainen

Nature-based solutions fuel new Resilient Landscapes initiative

Tackling ecosystem crises through public-private collaborations

World Food Day || Voices of Food Systems

This video was produced as part of the 24-hour Global Relay Conversation organized by the UN Food Systems Summit in partnership with Future Food Institute for World Food Day 2020.

Key insights into land degradation from seven African countries

These findings will allow an assessment of how the Regreening Africa programme will affect people and the environment, and generate evidence on how land restoration efforts can be scaled up, a key aim of this initiative.

Carica papaya: a tree that keeps on giving

Farmers in Kenya are benefitting from growing pawpaw thanks to support from Regreening Africa.

A tale of an enclosure: an Ethiopian success story

Reluctantly, farmers enclosed a piece of barren land and were surprised to see it soon fill with grasses, shrubs and trees that bring many benefits for the community.

Tree planting is critical for sustainable future but can’t fix climate change on its own

Environmental strategies must maintain focus on greenhouse gas emissions

Dispelling the top seven tree planting misconceptions

It is more important now than ever before to consider effective tree planting that benefits communities and the environment. To do this, the right tree must be planted in the right place for the right purpose.

Regreening Africa’s consolidated seven-country baseline survey

An eight-country project in Africa has published a major survey of the state of the countries’ land restoration efforts.

Prioritising agroforestry in the policy agenda: six recommendations to scaling

A policy brief from World Agroforestry Regreening Africa Project outlines key findings and recommendations to enhance the enabling policy, legal and institutional environment to underpin scaling-up of agroforestry in sub-Saharan Africa.

Boosting restoration through the airwaves

Radio programs are spreading the good work of the Regreening Africa project in Senegal.

Regreening Africa: an initiative that puts farmers first in Rwanda

Regreening Africa has set an ambitious target to restore ecosystems in Bugesera, Kayonza, Gatsibo and Nyagatare districts in Rwanda, and in return improve the resilience of smallholder farmers therein.

Unlocking the power of collaborative, on-the-ground learning and adaptation

The most recent Regreening Africa Joint Reflection and Learning Missions (JRLMs) were designed using the SHARED (Stakeholder Approach to Risk Informed and Evidence-based Decision-making) method. The result was an innovative monitoring, reflection and co-learning opportunity between all project partners, across seven countries.

Adonsi Community Re-generating 75 Acres Of Land

Land Restoration in Africa: Practical Perspectives from the Regreening Africa Programme

How can the continent turn the tide to more sustainable pathways that ensure food and nutritional security, improved natural resource governance and conservation of biodiversity? Watch this video, as Dr. Susan Chomba, Regreening Africa Programme Manager, shares perspectives on moving from ivory towers of commitments to practical action.

Insecurity in Niger: reversing the gains made in land restoration

Faced with an unstable security condition and an influx of refugees, the Regreening Africa programme is having to rethink its work.

Could tree regeneration hold out hope for Africa’s vulnerable smallholder farmers?

Sub-Sahara Africa's 70 percent food is produced by smallholder farmers, mostly the women who are vulnerable to harsh climatic conditions which affect crop production leading to food insecurity which has for decades caused death and malnutrition. With deforestation becoming a key contributor to the worsening climate crisis for farmers, efforts are underway to curb this.

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