Tree health essential for tree-based restoration plans in Rwanda
Researchers have found that Rwanda’s agroforestry and restoration initiatives are threatened by invasive pests and diseases. They call for the issue to receive more attention. By Sheillah Cherotich Agroforestry practices are widely accepted as a sustainable strategy...
Regreening Africa Roundtable Speakers
The Regreening Africa App
The Regreening Africa App is a mobile-based android application that allows users to collect data at farm level on a range of land restoration practices that allows for robust landscape level monitoring. The Regreening Africa App links land restoration activities...
Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration in Senegal – Samba’s Story
By *Mwabi Jere and Marion Aluoch Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) is the systematic regeneration and management of trees and shrubs from tree stumps, roots and seeds. These regrown trees and shrubs increase landscape tree cover, resulting in greater carbon...
Faith in land restoration: lessons and insights
Faith in land restoration: lessons and insights By *Sandiso Matshikiza The ecological and socio-economic effects of climate change and land degradation are now well documented across the globe, with many initiatives that seek to address these issues putting...
Can traditional gender norms shift?
Reflections by *Lamisi Awuni, a facilitator of the Gender Transformative Approach. World Vision Ghana trained me as a facilitator for the Regreening Africa project to train five communities in Bawku West District — including Adonsi, Googo, Widnaba, Farik and Nosqua —...
Women farmers restoring landscapes and improving livelihoods in Rwanda
Leading farmers like Beatrice Mukagasarabwe are driving regreening of degraded agricultural land in the country. By Charity Uwase* Beatrice Mukagasarabwe, 38, is a champion farmer in her village of Kadebo, Bugesera District in Rwanda. An environmental enthusiast, she...
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),...