The Global EverGreening Alliance and Acorn, a Rabobank initiative, are developing a US$12.5 million land restoration programme for Nigeria. The programme aims to directly support 120,000 small scale farmers to restore over 200,000 hectares by supporting their transition to sustainable agriculture.
Climate Impact Partners and the Global EverGreening Alliance are partnering to develop nature-based carbon removal projects and community led approaches in Kenya, Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. This effort is part of Restore Africa, building more resilient livelihoods, restoring productivity to degraded landscapes, and drawing down significant volumes of carbon from the atmosphere.
We launched the world’s biggest privately funded, farmer-led land restoration programme in Kenya in May this year. The Global EverGreening Alliance’s Restore Africa Programme will restore 1.9 million hectares of land. That equates to supporting 1.5 million smallholder farming families across six African countries – Kenya, Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. The Programme will…
‘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 Alan Channer ‘Regreening Africa’ is a multi-country project, funded by the European Union, with the goal of scaling up evergreen agriculture to 500,000 farm households, over an area of over one million hectares. Patrick Worms, Senior Science Policy Advisor at the World Agroforestry Centre, worked on the conception of the project. He emphasises that…