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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...
Assessing opportunities for sustainable land management in Africa: A cost-benefit approach in eight countries
The growing loss of land Land degradation, desertification, and drought are widespread global issues that increasingly threaten the future of our environment. They result in the loss of ecosystem services from land and land-based ecosystems that are necessary for...
Assessing opportunities for sustainable land management in Africa: A cost-benefit approach in eight countries
Land degradation, desertification, and drought are widespread global issues that increasingly threaten the future of our environment. They result in the loss of ecosystem services from land and land-based ecosystems that are necessary for human livelihoods. Food...
Evergreen Agriculture Project to kick start in UE and Northern Regions
A new food security and climate change project, dubbed, "Scaling-up Evergreen Agriculture Project" is to kick start in the Bawku West, Garu and Mion Districts of the Upper Easy and the Northern Regions respectively. The European Union-funded project seeks to improve...
Evergreen Agriculture Project to kick start in UE and Northern Regions
By Samuel Akapule, GNA A new Food Security and Climate Change Project, dubbed, “Scaling-up Evergreen Agriculture Project” is to kick start in the Bawku West, Garu and Mion Districts of the Upper East and the Northern Regions respectively. The European Union-funded...