Written by on Sept. 17, 2020 in Biodiversity, Land Degradation.
Last update on Sept. 17, 2020.
Photo: Farmer removing side stems from naturally regenerated Guiera senegalensis to enhance its growth, a key FMNR practice (by P. Savadogo/ ICRAF).
This blog is reposted with permission from the ICRAF website
Farmer-managed natural regeneration as a land restoration strategy. Under what conditions does it work?
The upcoming UN decade on Ecosystem Restoration aims to ...
Written by on Jan. 15, 2018 in Biodiversity, Land Degradation, Deforestation, R, Soil Mapping.
Last update on Jan. 15, 2018.
Photo of an agricultural landscape in Eastern Uganda, by Madelon Lohbeck
Restoration has never been more important, with almost a third of the world’s land surface degraded. But what exactly is restoration? And how do we know if it works?
More than 1.5 billion of the world’s poorest people are directly affected ...
Written by on March 30, 2017 in Biodiversity, Land Degradation.
Last update on March 30, 2017.
Working with nature: tropical
forest regrowth and its potential for mitigating climate change
The Bonn challenge aims to restore 350 million hectares of
degraded land by 2030 of which currently almost 100 million hectares has been
committed through various initiatives. Restoration is a global priority; not
only to restore the productivity of degraded and unproductive ...