Colonel Major Yacouba Seybou
Colonel Major Yacouba Seybou served in several provinces of Niger as a Director in charge of forest resource management, agroforestry parks, and ecosystem restoration after completing his university studies and earning a degree in Water and Forestry Engineering and a...
Hamed Constantin Tchibozo
Hamed Constantin Tchibozo is working as Program Manager and a Regreening Africa Project Coordinator at World Vision in Niger. He is an agricultural engineer expert in agricultural production and rural development. He is also passionate about environmental...
Tor-Gunnar Vågen
Tor-Gunnar Vågen has a varied background of soil science, hydrology, landscape ecology, statistical modeling, and remote sensing (earth observation). Dr. Vågen has been leading the development and application of the Land Degradation Surveillance Framework (LDSF),...
Bernard Crabbé
Bernard Crabbé is head of the environment mainstreaming & circular economy sector at the European Commission, Directorate General for International Partnerships (INTPA). An agricultural engineer by training, with a specialization in tropical agronomy and...
Mieke Bourne Ochieng
Mieke Bourne Ochieng leads Regreening Africa, which is regenerating land in eight sub-Saharan African countries from Ethiopia to Senegal. She co-developed the Stakeholder Approach to Risk-informed and Evidence-based Decision-making (SHARED), a demand-driven, tailored,...
Patrick Worms
Patrick Worms, originally educated as a molecular geneticist, represents the world’s premier research institution devoted to the study of the roles of trees in agricultural landscapes to policy makers in Brussels and elsewhere in Europe. World Agroforestry, active...
Peter Minang
Dr. Peter A Minang is the Director for Africa / Directeur Afrique at CIFOR-ICRAF, Global Coordinator, ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins. He received his PhD in 2007 in Environmental Policy from University of Twente and the International Institute for...
New guide to engaging communities in planning for sustainability
The Regreening Africa program has produced a guide to ensuring the work will continue after the program ends. By Marion Aluoch Sustainability planning is essential in any project to ensure that activities do not simply end when the project does. Having a plan in place...
Meet the women behind the scenes of restoration in Kenya
Women's active participation in landscape restoration is one of the ways they are contirbuting to climate change mitigation and adaptation. Meet the women who are contributing to landscape restoration through research and policy development. What motivates them to be...
Regreening Africa: Prioritising gender inclusion and agency in land restoration
The EU has scaled up its contribution to reach Sustainable Development Goal 5 in all internal and external policy areas. Gender equality and empowering women and girls are among the top priorities of DG INTPA. This is also reflected in the EU gender equality strategy...