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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.
Regreening Africa pitch at the Global Landscapes Forum in New York
Regreening Niger with proven agroforestry techniques
Matching local knowledge with science to promote regreening
Training farmers in tree-nursery establishment and management is a critical, nature-based solution to achieve restoration targets.
Puntland: restoring land and livelihoods
The former conflict zone in Somalia is undergoing a renaissance through restoration of land that brings incomes, food security and hope.
Reverdir l’Afrique au Sénégal” veut reboiser 160 000 hectares d’ici 2022
En collaboration avec World Agroforestry, World Vision/Sénégal a organisé, ce mercredi, un atelier intitulé "Regreening l'Afrique au Sénégal’’. Un projet qui vise à reverdir 160 000 hectares d'ici 2022. "Ce projet sort du mouvement Regreening Africa ou reverdir...
Green agriculture initiative to boost food security for 70,000 households
By Michel Nkurunziza At least 70,000 households are set to benefit in terms of food security from a new project that seeks to revamp more than 100,000 hectares of land that have been degraded over the years. This is part of a re-greening project that will see trees...
Reversing land degradation in Africa by scaling-up evergreen agriculture
Mr. Lutta Alphayo a PhD student in the department of Land resource management and agricultural technology (LARMAT) presented a poster on “reversing land degradation in Africa by scaling-up evergreen agriculture”’ in the just concluded workshop on “Re-greening Kenya...
EU offers €1m to tackle land degradation in Ghana
By Wisdom Jonny-Nuekpe The European Union, through the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in Nairobi, has giving Ghana a €1 million grant to tackle land degradation. The programme which will begin in January 2018 is geared towards reversing land degradation by scaling...
ELD and ICRAF hold capacity building workshops on Regreening Africa
By Wangu Mwangi The Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) Initiative and the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) kicked-off capacity building workshops for eight African countries participating in the EU-funded ‘Scaling Up Evergreen Agriculture’ project. The project...