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Humanitarians struggle to address environment: ‘It’s nice but it’s not crucial’
With growing stress on natural resources, emergency workers have begun to examine their interventions. Environmental mismanagement can be fatal. Focusing on approaches that are built on the...
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Kenya challenged to meet regreening target
The East African nation’s farmers are slow to adopt reforestation and regreening practices owing to a range of difficulties. A regreening uptake rate of over 52 percent will be needed to reach Kenya’s...
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Beating Famine turns its attention to the Sahel
Land is being restored in Africa’s dry Sahel region to ensure food security The semi-arid region known as the Sahel stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea between the Sahara Desert and the...
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Restoring drylands and empowering farmers: lessons from the Drylands...
Successful land restoration needs human capacity, innovative technologies and mass participation. The countries of the Sahel Region of West Africa are vulnerable to the impact of large-scale...
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Flood-Based Livelihoods Symposium: Harnessing the potential of flood water
Researchers, governments and development agencies are hastening to harness the potential of floodwater for securing food security and sustainable livelihoods. Seasonal flooding is largely considered a...
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Fixing forests: how Decision Analysis is working on the ground in East Africa
Originally published by the CGIAR Research Programme on Water, Land and Ecosystems Among East Africa’s biodiversity hotspots is the Desa’a forest, which borders Tigray and Afar in Northern Ethiopia....
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Using the Land Degradation Surveillance Framework to assess land health in...
By Dorcas Sanginga Regreening Africa’s Land Degradation Dynamics component, spearheaded by Leigh Winowiecki, soil systems scientist, and Tor-Gunnar Vågen, geoinformatics senior scientist, recently...
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Kenyan value chains are crucial for regreening efforts
Researchers show development of value chains is important for restoring degraded land in Kenya. Development of value chains is a key driver for successful implementation of regreening efforts and...
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Eradicating hunger through the African Orphan Crops Consortium
Training scientists in advanced plant genomics is set to transform nutrition in Africa. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations works with the Consortium to assist its member...
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Trees in the mist: domesticating local forest trees to restore the Comoros...
Originally published by the Darwin Institute Forming a part of the Madagascar and Indian Ocean biodiversity hotspot is the island of Anjouan. Anjouan has experienced one of the most alarming...
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FEATURE: Can we grow our way out of the charcoal crisis?
Charcoal production in much of Africa is not only a major source of energy but also often illegal because of its apparent association with deforestation. In this first of our new series of feature...
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Regreening activities kick-off in Somalia
Thousands of farmers are set to benefit from land restoration in the drought- and strife-stricken country. The post Regreening activities kick-off in Somalia appeared first on Agroforestry World.
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‘Income that surpasses the waiting’: in dire need of trees, Malawi tries...
Success in rejuvenating land through forest-based enterprises has had dramatic outcomes for farmers. In the late afternoon in the highlands of Malawi, the air is chilly as the sun descends. But the...
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Farmers restoring drylands in Kenya
Smallholders and governments commit to restoring land through innovative, climate-smart agriculture. The post Farmers restoring drylands in Kenya appeared first on Agroforestry World.
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Benefits from trees regreen land and livelihoods
Smallholders in Ethiopia are set to benefit from development of tree value-chains. Wood-fuel, round wood, livestock fodder, honey and medicinal plants obtained from tree resources contributed up to...
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