Africa is faced with potentially devastating challenges
owing to the climate crisis, population growth, urban expansion and, not least,
millions of hectares of degraded agricultural and forest land.
More than 80% of Sub-Saharan Africans depend on land-based
activities for their livelihoods, yet two-thirds of land in Africa is already
degraded to some degree.
Leading experts in land restoration from major global
organizations have been discussing challenges in the context of the
massive Regreening Africa programme.
Regreening Africa is
a European Union-funded, five-year programme that seeks to reverse land
degradation among 500,000 households on 1 million hectares in eight countries
in Sub-Saharan Africa: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal and
Somalia.
By incorporating trees into croplands, communal lands and pastoral areas, regreening efforts aim to improve the livelihoods and food security of hundreds of thousands of smallholders and increase their resilience to the worst impact of the climate crisis.
By incorporating trees into croplands, communal lands and pastoral areas, regreening efforts aim to improve the livelihoods and food security of hundreds of thousands of smallholders and increase their resilience to the worst impact of the climate crisis.
ICRAF is a centre of scientific and development excellence that
harnesses the benefits of trees for people and the environment. Knowledge
produced by ICRAF enables governments, development agencies and farmers to
utilize the power of trees to make farming and livelihoods more
environmentally, socially and economically sustainable at multiple scales.
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