African Drylands

How to sustainably practise pastoralists in the age of climate change.

In Africa, pastoralists use natural indicators such as migratory birds and certain plant species to migrates. But due to change in rainfall, landscapes and vegetation change over time and conflict related to land use these natural indicators have changed altering grazing and migration patterns. Approximately 51 million square miles of land – 43% percent –…

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Listen to our voices while restoring degraded lands, says African youths.

70 percent of GLF Africa participants were aged between 18 to 35 making up 3000 of the 7000 registered participants. Cities Alliance, a global partnership fighting urban poverty and promoting the role of cities, notes that almost 60 percent of Africa’s more than 1 billion people are under the age of 25, making Africa the…

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Restoring African drylands: What’s next?

Today Salina Abraham, the Global Landscape Forum strategic adviser joins me as we investigate what was achieved last week during the conference. In this conversation in we talk about the critical issues of finance. How do Africa finance drylands restoration this decade now identified as the UN decade of restoration? How best can Africa take…

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Why is GLF Africa 2021 critical to African drylands now?

The Global Landscape Forum Africa 2021 kicks off tomorrow, the 2nd June, for two days. The digital conference dubbed “Restoring Africa’s Drylands – Accelerating Action on the Ground” will be 2021’s only conference on drylands restoration. The conference will play an essential role in identifying knowledge gaps while seeking solutions to the challenging issues facing…

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Ambitious African Forest restoration: What is the progress?

Every year, research by the World Resources Institute WRI indicates that Africa losses nearly 3 million hectares of forests. The continents 65% of the land is affected by degradation, and three percent of GDP is lost annually from soil and nutrient depletion on cropland. To tackle the high rates of degradation, African countries, after the…

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Local people critical in restoration of African drylands.

African drylands are home to more than half a billion people who live and work in the drylands. “We need to rethink restoration within the drylands. The voice of the people must be part of the design, implementation, and the monitoring process,” Lalisa Duguma, a scientist with the World Agroforestry, told the Africa Climate conversations….

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