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...
Joyce Mutemi
Joyce is the co-founder and Chairperson of the Muithua Farmers Cooperative Society. The cooperative, an aggregate of smaller informal groups, was founded in November 2017 to unite farmers in the region. Joyce was formerly a member of Mwangaza Tree Growers, one of the...
Agnes Cheptoo
Agnes is the coordinator of Chongoo Tree Nursery and its parent group, Cheptengis Okilgei Group. Her group is the umbrella body for all the 38 tree nursery initiatives in Elgeyo Marakwet County. Of the 38 groups, 7 are youth groups while the remaining 31 are women...
Margaret Gathoni
Increasing public awareness of the importance of environmental conservation Margaret is a student at Egerton University pursuing BSc. Ecotourism and Hospitality management. She is the chairperson of the ecotourism and hospitality association at Egerton University...