Ghana
Regreening Africa’s goal in Ghana is to create a sustained approach to reversing land degradation and integrating food production through agroforestry.
Regreening Africa addresses pressing challenges in Ghana’s savannas: extreme and prolonged dry seasons, overgrazing, uncontrolled fire, declining tree cover, loss of indigenous biodiversity and increased soil infertility.
Highlights
Regreening targets
80,000 hectares
40,000 households
Sites
Upper East Region: Bawku West and Garu Tempane districts
Northern Region: Mion District
Partners
World Vision Ghana
Catholic Relief Services
ICRAF Sahel
National and local governments
Approaches to reversing land degradation
Level 1: Direct interventions with the communities in three districts
- Introducing Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) to farmers and communities
- Training of lead farmers, peer-to-peer farmers and farmers’ groups to champion scale expansion of Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration and other agroforestry practices
Level 2: Interactions with policy makers through multi-stakeholder campaigns and advocacy strategies
- Local champions and community leaders lead the process of communicating the benefits to policy-makers to encourage scale expansion
- National-level multi-stakeholder workshops through the SHARED process to influence policies and practices in favour of land restoration
Project sites
- Bawku West District
- Garu-Tempane District
- Mion District

Expected impact
- Improved livelihoods, food security, and resilience to climate change
- Restored ecosystem services, particularly, through sustainable land management
- 80,000 households supported with viable and inclusive regreening options
- New evidence on the effectiveness of regreening generated to inform policy and practice
- Farmers, governments and civil society organizations equipped with new knowledge, skills, tools and resources to support regreening
- Regreening successes compiled and communicated to policy-makers, governments and others
Contact details
World Vision (WV)
Edward Akunyagra
Project Manager
Edward_Akunyagra@wvi.org
World Agroforestry Centre
Gloria Adeyiga
PhD Research Fellow & ICRAF Focal Point Person
gloriaadeyiga@gmail.com
Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
Mawuli Asigbee
Project Manager
Mawuli.Asigbee@crs.org