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.

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

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

Catholic Relief Services (CRS)

Mawuli Asigbee
Project Manager
Mawuli.Asigbee@crs.org