Project Updates

BY SUSAN ONYANGO · DECEMBER 21, 2018 Agroforestry will help the country meet its land-restoration targets.  Rwanda was the first African country to declare a target for land restoration, aiming for 2 million hectares by 2030, equivalent to 76% of its total land area....

By Joan Baxter. December 21, 1018 Trees are important sources of income for many women in the drylands of West Africa, yet women often have little say in decisions about how land and trees are managed or how household income is used. This story reports on a series of...

BY JOAN BAXTER · DECEMBER 18, 2018 An international workshop has called for an integrated plan to regreen the region. The climax of the international workshop held late November 2018 in Tamale, the capital of Ghana’s Northern Region, was when the nearly 60...

BY JOAN BAXTER · DECEMBER 7, 2018 “There is an urgent need in northern Ghana for metro, municipal and district assemblies, NGOs and civil society organizations to act immediately to address issues such as land tenure, bush fires, indiscriminate tree cutting, and a...

BY JOAN BAXTER · NOVEMBER 20, 2018 Raising awareness of gender equity and equality is critical for Africa’s future, with workshops like one held recently in Ghana an important contribution. Almost two dozen representatives from Ghanaian development agencies working in...

By Christine Magaju The Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) initiative organized a five-day training at Jacaranda hotel, Nairobi, Kenya, as part of the ‘Reversing Land Degradation in Africa by scaling up Evergreen Agriculture project (Regreening Africa)’s first...

BY SUSAN CHOMBA AND KARL HUGHES · JUNE 20, 2018 Land degradation, desertification and drought are widespread, affecting millions of livelihoods across Sub-Saharan Africa. A new project is setting out to reverse the trend. The United Nations General Assembly declared...

BY MAY MUTHURI · FEBRUARY 27, 2018 To combat desertification and regreen arid and semi-arid areas in Ethiopia and seven other countries, a consortium of partners faces big challenges. A ‘perfect storm’ of challenges is facing the Reversing Land Degradation in Africa...

BY MAY MUTHURI AND SUSAN ONYANGO · OCTOBER 19, 2017 Widespread land degradation is an increasing threat to ecosystem health, food production systems and livelihoods across sub-Saharan Africa. Processes such as soil erosion, biodiversity loss and deforestation, which...