The Tamale Declaration: a regreening plan for northern Ghana
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...
Call to action: more trees to restore landscapes and improve livelihoods in northern Ghana
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...
Restoring land and increasing resilience needs women
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...
Regreening Ethiopia with Trees: Mapping a Collaborative Approach
Regreening Africa SHARED and Agroforestry Platform Workshop Dates: 19th November 2018 Venue: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Harmony Hotel, Tana Hall Workshop objectives: Review the evidence and benefits associated with integrating trees into agricultural and pastoral...
Steering Committee Meeting
Dates: 20th – 23rd November 2018 Venue: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Harmony Hotel, Tana Hall The 2nd steering committee meeting will be convened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from the 20th to the 23rd of November 2018. This meeting’s agenda will be centered on the review of...
Comment accélérer l’intensification de la restauration des terres au Sahel
En Afrique subsaharienne, environ 65 % des terres agricoles sont classées comme dégradées, comparées à la moyenne mondiale qui est de 20% à 15 %. Le coût annuel de la dégradation des terres en Afrique est estimé à 68 milliards de dollars, avec une réduction du produit...
How to Massively Accelerate the Scaling-Up of Land Restoration in the Sahel
Approximately 65% of the agricultural land in sub-Saharan Africa is classified as degraded compared to a global average of 20% - 15%. Land degradation is estimated to cost $68 billion annually, while reducing the agricultural Gross Domestic Product by 3% in the...
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...