Team Leader of the Uganda Landcare Network (ULN) Dr Joy Tukhawira and Mr Mathias Wakulira talk to Senior EverGreening Fellow, Dr Alan Channer, about evergreening in Uganda. Groups of children wend their way through coffee and banana fields, their banter mingling with cock crows as the sun rises. And when they reach school, they…
by David Charles How secure resource rights help communities in Africa restore forests and build local economies “Landscape restoration is not new,” said Steven Lawry, former director of CIFOR’s Forests and Governance Research portfolio. “But global and national commitments such as the Bonn Challenge and AFR100 and the urgency of addressing climate change mean that a qualitatively different approach…
Originally published on CARE website. Kanai Garba of Danja village outside Maradi City in Niger was a member of one of the first CARE Village Savings & Loan Associations. Through her businesses selling peanut oil and corn and breeding animals, she has bought her own home and built financial freedom for herself and her family.…