What’s better than planting trees? Regrowing them! FMNR (Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration) is a low-cost, accessible solution to restoring degraded lands. It increases climate change resilience, combats poverty, and benefits women, the poor and the vulnerable in rural communities worldwide. In the Sahel region severe famines in the 1970s and 80s led to…
Restore Africa: Restoring Landscapes and Livelihoods in East and Southern Africa with Climate Asset Management moved from inception to implementation and in Kenya, launch events were held in the Programme’s four targeted counties to deepen the understanding of the program, bringing together County-level leaders, organisations, regulatory institutions, farmers and other stakeholders. Across Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi,…
The tree seedling sellers have stuck to the trade despite threats from the city expansion, driven by the passion to keep it green. Nairobi is also where the Restore Africa Programme, the world’s largest farmer-led land restoration program,was launched in May 2022
It’s been a big year for the Alliance. New Members, new Fellows, new Partners, new announcements – 2022 has been a year of massive growth and expansion. Not to mention a new look! In April 2022 we officially launched Landscape Partnership Asia with AFoCO and CIFOR-ICRAF at the XV World Forestry Congress held in Seoul.This…
It seems that getting to COP is never without its challenges and after hurdling mandated hotel prices, scouring for blue zone passes and even convincing our Ambassador, Irene Ojuok, to do it all again (following last year’s debacle) – we’re on our way! COP27 is being posited as the action COP. Egypt’s COP27 presidency vision…
Following the massive success of the launch of Restore Africa in Kenya, the Alliance held the African Land Restoration Forum in Uganda in June. Designed to bring together key stakeholders to plan a road map of restoration ahead of COP27, the Forum was attended by representatives from 11 African Governments, global and local NGOs, corporate…