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Within Regreening Africa, each country team identified policy and institutional challenges they planned to address through targeted activities to shift behaviour of stakeholders. Each year activities were undertaken and assessed to see the changes taking place....

The successful implementation of regreening hinges on strong value chains that incentivise reinvestment in agriculture and agroforestry. Tree-based value chains provide an opportunity to develop community-based businesses, improve employment for rural women and youth,...

The Great Green Wall is a Pan-African initiative to restore large areas of land to benefit local communities. Through this initiative hundreds of millions of hectares will be regreened across the Sahel and Horn of Africa from Senegal through to Somalia. Regreening...

Tree use rights have been raised as a critical incentive to scaling out landscape restoration with trees in many countries in the Sahel. A question has emerged around who can use trees on farms and if the current policies reward those land managers who regenerate and...

By Regreening Africa As a large-scale, multi-country, multi stakeholder restoration initiative, Regreening Africa offers a unique opportunity to generate actionable lessons on restoration efforts. In our new guide, Performance of Indigenous Tree Species in the Sahel,...

By Regreening Africa - CRS Ethiopia  According to elders in Sire Woreda in Ethiopia, Ibsata Huduga Kebele's landscapes were once evergreen, with dense trees and grasslands, making it difficult to walk inside the forest. However, unsustainable land use, primarily...

By Regreening Africa - CRS Ethiopia  Mrs. Mamitu Kumbi never imagined that her 0.9 hectares of land could be productive enough to produce an abundance of various fruits before 2019. "This area was bare, unproductive, and only used for waste disposal," she recalls. She...

By Regreening Africa-CRS Ghana Mr. Emmanuel Lag is 70 years old and used to teach in Kukpalgu, a farming community in the Mion District of Ghana's Northern Region. He is now retired. He is one of the few environmental enthusiasts in the district who has maintained a...

By Regreening Africa - Oxfam Mali Djelika Malle is a farmer in the village of Dintiola who relies heavily on the land and its resources for her livelihood. From a distance, you can see the trees she has planted, which are safe from animals and people who would...

By Regreening Africa - World Vision Ghana  Chief Edmond Bugri Bawah is an exceptional leader of the Googo community in the Bawku West district of Ghana's Upper East region. His exceptional qualities are revealed in his interests and passions, which include his desire...