Desertification: The Invisible Frontline
A new publication by the TerrAfrica Partner, UNCCD examines desertification as a cause of global conflict and instability and calls for urgent action to support communities in crisis.
View ArticleLand-based adaptation and resilience: Powered by nature
The productive land under our care can withstand climate change-related stresses. TerrAfrica Partner, UNCCD’s latest publication explains how land-based adaptation is a practical and affordable solution.
View ArticleCivil society: Stewards of the land
The livelihoods of 2 billion people are under direct threat from desertification / land degradation and drought. Climate change is eroding the precious life-support systems – the land and the ecosystem...
View ArticleLessons from SIP
Informing Future Interventions for Scaling-up Sustainable Land Management The review was conducted with the aim to provide guidance for future engagement / investments, in particular in the context of...
View ArticleAfrica – the Fire Continent: Fire in Contemporary African Landscapes
Science tells us that many plant species and ecosystems in Africa benefit from fire and indeed need fire to remain healthy. Traditional farmers recognize this and have for centuries frequently burnt...
View ArticleConfronting Drought in Africa’s Drylands : Opportunities for Enhancing...
Drylands make up about 43 percent of the region’s land surface, account for about 75 percent of the area used for agriculture, and are home to about 50 percent of the population, including many poor....
View ArticleLand for life. Create Wealth, Transform Lives
Becoming land degradation neutral is not simply about restoring degraded lands. It is about self-interest making sure the land can still provide food and fresh water for us, our children, and to the...
View ArticleA guide to the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM) :...
Recent developments have seen forest landscape restoration (FLR) become widely recognized as an important means of not only restoring ecological integrity at scale but also generating additional...
View ArticleSustainable Land Management in the Kagera Basin
Presents sustainable land management techniques and approaches that have been tested and adapted by local practitioners in 26 districts of the Kagera basin, which is shared by Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania...
View ArticleThe TerrAfrica Brand And Visual Identity
The TerrAfrica Brand And Visual Identity High-quality, cost-effective, and technically sound communication products serve an important role in raising awareness, visibility, and understanding of...
View ArticleForest and Landscape Investment Forum (FLIF) Report
Investments needed to achieve the ambitious restoration goals to which countries committed in the context of the Bonn Challenge, the New York Declaration on Forests and their decentralized processes...
View ArticleFighting land degradation at landscape scale : sustainable land and water...
On the African continent, poverty reduction, economic development, and sustainability are deeply intertwined and dependent on the management of natural resources, such as land, water, forest, aquatic...
View ArticleWhere people and their land are safer
Every day throughout the African continent and the world, disasters undermine people’s capacities to develop and recover: prolonged droughts, floods and other events harm fertile landscapes and cause...
View ArticleSynopsis of the Country Strategic Investment Framework
The Strategic Investment Program for SLM in Sub-Saharan Africa ( SIP) is the response from the GEF to support SSA countries in pursuing the multi-sector, long-term programmatic approaches needed to...
View ArticleThe benefits of bamboo for land restoration.
A new report reveals the benefits of bamboo for land restoration. The report shows the positive benefits which bamboo has had as a tool to restore degraded land in eight countries. The report, written...
View ArticleLandscape Transformation for Development and Resilience in Africa
Reshaping Partners’ Common Vision and Support Framework to Scale up Interventions and Investments Sub-Sahara African Countries are resilient to climate change, overcoming their challenges in...
View ArticleIndependent Evaluation of the TerrAfrica Partnership and the TerrAfrica...
An independent terminal evaluation was conducted of the TerrAfrica Partnership and the TerrAfrica Leveraging Fund (TLF) by Okapi Environmental Consulting Inc. (OECI), in order to provide an analysis of...
View ArticleRapid Strategic Environmental Assessment of Coffee Sector Reform in Burundi
Coffee growing is one of the most important productive activities in Burundi. Coffee, mainly of the Arabica variety, is the country’s primary export crop. Coffee accounts for more than 60 percent of...
View ArticleRapid Strategic Environmental Assessment of Coffee Sector Reform in Burundi
Coffee growing is one of the most important productive activities in Burundi. Coffee, mainly of the Arabica variety, is the country’s primary export crop. Coffee accounts for more than 60 percent of...
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