'If we are going to successfully restore land, we need to look beyond just vegetation cover. We need to understand other processes such as soil health.' Tor Vagen

Healthy soil is key to resilient ecosystems. 🌱

Regreening Africa
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🌱 Unlocking the Potential of Soil Health for a Sustainable Future! 🌍

Discover the transformative power of healthy soils in our policy brief! 📄

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What is #Agroforestry ?

It is defined as ‘agriculture with trees’.
However, it is so much more!

Remember, There is #NothingBetterThanATree ... 🌳

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🏆 Award winning research led by World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg), and including CIFOR-ICRAF scientists, shows the potential of ‘forgotten’ food crops in sub-Saharan Africa to provide healthy diets in a changing climate.

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The Standards of Practice is a guide to ecosystem restoration that provides key recommendations for all phases of restoration projects.

This contributes to the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030.

Food and Agriculture Organization UN Environment Programme IUCN SERestoration
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DYK? 🤔

#Dendrochronology is the analysis of tree growth ring patterns to specify the time and conditions under which each growth ring was formed.

The study aims to adapt trees and forests to future climate by evaluating climate-growth relationships.

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Agroforestry and Reforestation Accelerator:

This project's objective is to build a public-private partnership for restoration through #agroforestry systems with cocoa and active restoration for #carbon sequestration.

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The 🆕 #Restore4More project seeks to restore rangelands in East Africa, boosting #climate resilience, #biodiversity , water, & food security.

CIFOR-ICRAF is excited to engage in this project, leveraging the Land Degradation Surveillance Framework.

Learn more from Leigh Ann Winowiecki.

In choosing seed sources, a balance needs to be struck between using strictly local
sources and a broader mixture of seed sources.
The approach enhances genetic diversity and equips plants to adapt to changing climates.

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Gender and Restoration.

Embedding gender into Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) activities offers considerable opportunities for leveraging synergies between restoration commitments, climate change action & global commitments to sustainable development.
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🇻🇳 Our latest report on the biodiversity of the Mekong Delta in Vietnam explores opportunities and challenges for its enhancement.
Drawing on extensive reviews, this study is a crucial tool for anyone involved in regional biodiversity efforts.

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🇬🇭 Integrated Landscape Approaches (ILAs) could resolve the longstanding conflicts between farmers and Fulani pastoralists in northern Ghana.

For over 20 years, these disputes have hindered #sustainable development and led to tragic losses.

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A success story ✨

Explore with us the story of restoration community-based adaptation and climate-smart practices in the Gergera Watershed in Ethiopia 🇪🇹

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In DRC, titling industrial loggers shows no impact on deforestation.

The ultimate objective is to inform #policymakers as to what extent, and in which contexts, industrial logging concessions can halt deforestation and forest degradation.
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Wild animals have traditionally been the main sources of protein available to numerous indigenous populations worldwide.
However, policies supporting agricultural development, have shifted food habits toward domestic and industrial sources of protein.
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Blue carbon ecosystems are capable of sequestering and storing more carbon than terrestrial forests, and they have attracted global attention, notably in climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Get a copy of our Blue carbon dialogue event report⤵️
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Restoration begins on the ground.

Farmers are innovators, experimenters, and importantly, stewards of the land. This makes them key players in global restoration efforts.

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🌱Coalition of Action 4 Soil Health April 2024 newsletter is packed w/ stories of #youth investing in #Soil to new partners to upcoming #Africa Fertilizer & Soil Health Summit to #biochar & more!
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Land and Health FARA Africa AUDA-NEPAD CIFOR-ICRAF ISRIC - World Soil Information TonyWild

Seeing the Unseen🔍

Explore the mysterious mycorrhizal community in soil.
Mycorrhiza fungi are #soil microorganisms that can form mutualistic relationships with most terrestrial plants and have been used as biofertilizers in agricultural lands.

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🔴 Event Alert

📋 Agriculture, Biodiversity and Food Security: From Commitments to Actions

🗓️ 30 Apr - 02 May 2024

📍 Quebec City Convention Centre, Quebec, Canada

More information ↪️ bit.ly/4a1xRzD

vincent gitz Eliane Ubalijoro

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