‘It’s an entirely different way of working!’ This has been the feedback from many of the design workshop participants in East and Southern Africa. During the three weeks spanning late November and early December 2019, members from the Global EverGreening Alliance (the Alliance) secretariat facilitated six intensive multi-stakeholder workshops, to refine a massive-scale land restoration…
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…
Report by Dr Kelechi Eleanya and Dr Alan Channer The EverGreening Network for Forest and Land Restoration (ENFORLAR) – the Nigerian chapter of the Global EverGreening Alliance – is spearheading the restoration of degraded landscapes across Nigeria’s drylands. To galvanise these efforts, ENFORLAR organized a 2nd Drylands Restoration Conference in the city of Kano,…
By Alan Channer There is a Kenyan saying that ‘he who goes to Mombasa may never return’, for the Indian Ocean port has many charms and opportunities. Today the city’s sprawling slums are witness to a more general challenge: rural-urban migration. Much of this is due to environmental degradation and the effects of climate change…
By Alan Channer Kelechi Eleanya is passionate about trees and the environment. As President of the ‘Forestry Students Association’ (aka the ‘Tree Club’) at the University of Ibadan in the 1990s, he was in the vanguard of promoting the value of trees in the environment among his peers. ‘Back then,’ Eleanya recalls, ‘forestry was not…
by Alan Channer World Vision Ghana has been fostering the uptake of evergreen agriculture in northern Ghana for over 10 years – greening thousands of hectares in Talensi District, with multiple benefits for its farming communities. As a result of these achievements, World Vision Ghana won an ‘Excellence in Land Restoration Award’ in February 2019,…