Project Updates
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Regreening activities kick off in Somalia!
Thousands of farmers are set to benefit from land restoration in the drought- and strife-stricken country.
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A roadmap to guide regreening in Mali
By Gilberte Koffi Government, researchers and development agencies are creating a roadmap for restoration in Mali to ensure a better understanding of the challenges, coordination and funding. Mali is one of eight African countries where Regreening Africa is being...
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Kenyan value chains are crucial for regreening efforts
By Grace Koech Researchers show development of value chains is important for restoring degraded land in Kenya. Development of value chains is a key driver for successful implementation of regreening efforts and market access, say researchers from World Agroforestry...
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Using the Land Degradation Surveillance Framework to assess land health in Rwanda
By Dorcas Sanginga Regreening Africa’s Land Degradation Dynamics component, spearheaded by Leigh Winowiecki, soil systems scientist, and Tor-Gunnar Vågen, geoinformatics senior scientist, recently conducted Field Training and Field Survey: Biophysical Soil and Land...
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Learning from past initiatives for expanding the scale of land restoration in Africa
Former ways have been reviewed and new approaches put forward at a major conference on land restoration in Mali. Land-restoration challenges have been presented in the past, great solutions proposed, and targets set at local, regional, national and global levels,...
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Land Degradation Surveillance Framework deployed in Senegal
The Framework is helping farmers and governments monitor the progress of regreening efforts and the overall health of their land. The Land Degradation Surveillance Framework has been designed by World Agroforestry to provide a biophysical baseline at landscape...
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Kenya challenged to meet regreening target
The East African nation’s farmers are slow to adopt reforestation and regreening practices owing to a range of difficulties. A regreening uptake rate of over 52 percent will be needed to reach Kenya’s 10,000 direct adoption target, according to researchers of...
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Beating Famine turns its attention to the Sahel
Land is being restored in Africa’s dry Sahel region to ensure food security The semi-arid region known as the Sahel stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea between the Sahara Desert and the Sudanian Savannah. Most of the 135 million people living in it depend...
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Land restoration is a strategic investment in Ethiopia
BY SUSAN CHOMBA AND MAY MUTHURI · FEBRUARY 5, 2019 Productive land leads to many benefits but achieving productivity needs a change of thinking. Gergera watershed and Maego sub-watershed at Negash in Ethiopia are examples of how restoring land leads to many...
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New paradigm unfolds to rapidly regreen Africa
BY SUSAN CHOMBA AND MAY MUTHURI · FEBRUARY 4, 2019 The Regreening Africa project is charting new paths into coplex, unmapped territory in its effort to restore 1 million hectares of land in eight countries within five years. The goal of the Reversing Land...