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African Forest and Landscape Restoration Initiatives
Introduction and Overview – Dennis Garrity, Drylands Ambassador, UNCCD & Senior Fellow, World Resources Institute Landscape Resilience in Africa – Magda Lovei, World BankBMZ's contribution to Forest Landscape Restoration in Africa – Christina Seeberg-Elverfeldt, BMZ CGIAR Research in Support of the Restoration Agenda - Debbie Bossio, Water, Land, and Ecosystems Research ProgramLand Health Surveillance and Agroforestry in support of Land Restoration in Africa - Ermias Betemariam, World Agroforestry CentreCommunity Leadership is Key: The African Landcare Network as a Grassroots Approach to Landscape Restoration – Clinton Muller, African Landcare NetworkAudience Participation
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AFRICA RESTORATION INITIATIVE
World Resources Institute August 2015
Image: Flickr/USAID Kenya
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Trend in biomass productivity by farming system
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AFRICA HAS THE WORLD’S LARGEST RESTORATION OPPORTUNITY
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HOW TO TRANSLATE OPPORTUNITY INTO AN AFRICAN RESTORATION MOVEMENT?
• African countries already have major successes• African countries already have commitments to the
Bonn Challenge– Ethiopia: 15 million hectares– DRC: 8 million hectares– Uganda: 2.5 million hectares– Rwanda: 2 million hectares
• African countries are formulating commitments, conducting analyses and developing strategies
• How can an African regional initiative help to accelerate progress on the ground?
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1. Limited uptake of Bonn Challenge from Africa countries with only four national commitments
2. Disparate projects have led to a lack of knowledge sharing on restoration
3. Country ownership of the restoration agenda4. Analyses and capacities to realize restoration
ambitions, e.g. maps, partnerships, strategies5. Adequate finance to meet the scale of
ambition6
CHALLENGES
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The Parkland Renaissance on Niger Farmlands
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Farmer-Managed Regeneration of trees has been massively upscaled on the croplands in Niger
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• Agroforestry is the central pillar of Rwanda’s restoration efforts
• Potential of 1.1 million hectares – 45% land areaon sloping agricultural land and flat land
Rwanda’s Border-to-Border Restoration Program
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Kigali
East
North
South
West
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100,000
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900,000
1,000,000
Closed Forest Woodland/Tree Crops Cropland Savanna/ Prairie/Shrubland Grassland
Urban Area Water bodies
Land use (ha) – RwandaLand that is: - agricultural-non-forested-sloping (5-55%).
Rwanda Landscapes for Restoration Interventions
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Conservation agriculture with reduced tillage and trees increases productivity while restoring land quality and reducing labor.
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17 African countries are now engaged in EverGreen Agriculture
Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration
Conservation Agriculture with trees
Trees interplanted in conventional tilled cropland
Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration +
Trees interplanted in conventional tilled cropland
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• National analyses driving strategy• National partnerships driving action • Knowledge shared via peer-to-peer
learning exchanges
• Sub-regional partnerships emerge• R100 governance is structured for
continental & global coordination• New sources of climate and
private finance available
• Quantified restoration and carbon sequestration potential
• Ambitious hectare commitments from African countries
• Restoration included in INDCs
2. Enable regional
coordination
3. Mobilize national
action
1. Inspire ambitious
commitments
Inspire Enable
Mobilize
DESIRED OUTCOMES
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NEPAD• Integrate the forest and landscape
restoration agenda into the African Union’s programs
• Engage heads-of-state and a range of ministers to realize a “whole of government” approach
• Deliver strategic guidance to the initiative
WRI• Leverage experience with the 20x20
launch to help design the program• Support the initiative, with guidance
from NEPAD, African countries, BMZ and partners
• Support countries in quantifying their geographic commitments
• Engage impact investors • Deliver coordination and
management capacity as needed
AREAS OF FOCUS FOR THE PARTNERS
With African countries owning and driving the agenda…