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Kenya National Landscape Restoration Scaling Conference 2022
CONFERENCE RESOURCES CONFERENCE DAY 1 RESOURCES CONFERENCE DAY 2 RESOURCES PRE-CONFERENCE THEMATIC WEBINARS CONFERENCE BLOG: Stakeholders Consolidate the Restoration Movement to Expand Landscape Restoration in Kenya CONFERENCE REPORT: Kenya National Landscape...
Celebrating and Scaling Diverse Land Restoration Approaches to Benefit Livelihoods in Ethiopia
By Sabrina Chesterman A wide range of restoration stakeholders and partners, ranging from Government officials to community farmers, were brought together to showcase evidence, achievements, and ongoing efforts of the Regreening Africa program. The national...
Thematic cross country learning events
Context The thematic cross country learning event is as a result of the survey that was conducted in August 2021 to help identify key cross-country learning topics emerging from the 2021 Joint Reflective and Learning Mission (JRLM) discussions. Multiple themes that...
Rwanda Stakeholders Build an Action Plan for Land Restoration
By Sabrina Chesterman At the nexus of the United Nations (UN) Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, the UN Convention to Combat Desertification climate conference, and that of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Regreening Africa Workshop in Rwanda was an...
Land Restoration in Africa Delivers for People and Climate
By Marion Aluoch Over the course of five years, the Regreening Africa project has demonstrated that restoring degraded land contributes to climate change mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity enhancement, and equitable improvement of local communities' livelihoods....
Kenyan Schools Championing Regreening Initiatives
By Tengetile Zanele Mphila Kenya committed to restore 5.1 million hectares of land by 2030. This restoration commitment involves partnering with both state and non-state actors towards implementing various restoration practices, including tree planting, and growing...
Landscape Restoration by Regreening Africa: 5 critical lessons from a massive Research in Development effort
Insights from a recent Regreening Africa Roundtable By *Sandiso Matshikiza Two-thirds of the land in sub-Saharan Africa is highly degraded, threatening the livelihoods of those dependent on it —a staggering 83% of the region’s population. Agroforestry has been used...
Where to from here? Reflections from Senegal on Landscape Restoration
By Sabrina Chesterman “Land management has to go hand in hand with community needs – everyone has a role to play, and with our combined efforts, a lot of positive change can be achieved” – Marie Louise Diouf, Zonal Manager, World Vision Senegal Senegal has achieved...
Regreening Africa Roundtable: Unlocking large-scale land restoration practices, approaches, and benefits in Sub-Saharan Africa
ROUNDTABLE RESOURCESPRESENTATIONSRESOURCES/LINKSRegreening Africa is an ambitious programme running from 2017-2023 that aims to reverse land degradation on 1 million hectares across 8 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Regreening Africa integrates trees into crop and...
Expanding food systems and income sources for tree farmers in Migori County, Kenya
By Grace Koech In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the desire to get healthier, amid climate change and widening gaps in food security and nutrition are of concern, hence the need for the development and strengthening of existing rural delivery systems to improve...