Zinder Niger: Zinder Faiza Habou, a 17-year-old secondary school student from Zinder, Niger’s second largest city, and her mother make a career by cracking nuts and pounding wild fruits under contract for Sahara Sahel Foods. “These fruits were a delicacy when I was growing up in the village.” “Until 2014, my mother worked as a…
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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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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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Africa forest cover accounts for 23 percent of its planned area. Africa is also home to the most significant proportion of forest-dependent subsistence households globally. More than half of the continent’s population relies directly or indirectly on the forests for livelihoods. Ines Angulo, the Forest Investment Project (FIP)coordinator at the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), says…
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