africa

Farmers in sub-Saharan Africa Regenerate Land to Beat Famine

By Elizabeth Kahurani  The afternoon parallel session on Land regeneration for climate change adaptation offered a glimmer of hope with a showcase of natural resource management (NRM) techniques and innovations that farmers across sub-Saharan Africa are using to regenerate degraded land and enhance food security.

Initiatives to reward environmental stewards gain wide recognition

Last week, PRESA’s (Pro-poor Rewards for Environmental Services in Africa) work to give incentives to environmental stewards was awarded the title ‘Innovation of the Week’ by an article featured by the

IUFRO: Making African Forests Fit for Climate Change

Africa is expected to face particularly high impacts from climate change.

National deforestation workshop in Cameroon looks beyond the forest

While it is clear that deforestation is an important source of global carbon emissions, the potential role that agricultural mosaics at the forest margin could play, to help reduce pressure on the forest, store carbon and create benefits for local people is gaining evidence Scientists and forest stakeholders in Cameroon met in Yaoundé on 6-7 May, to share and validate new research on the pote

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