Africa
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Ethiopian National Agroecology Strategy validated
The Ethiopian National Agroecology Strategy was validated at a national workshop held on 11 December 2025 in Addis Ababa, marking the conclusion of more than…
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Ethiopia launches its National Agroforestry Development Strategy
Ethiopia has officially launched its National Agroforestry Development Strategy 2026–2035, marking a transition from years of policy development to nationwide implementation. The launch was…
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Biodiversity and livelihoods at the centre: Planting native or introduced tree species
“Biodiversity doesn’t vote. Biodiversity is not what wins elections,” said Paul Smith, Secretary-General of Botanical Gardens Conservation International (BGCI), at a recent webinar on Choosing between native and introduced tree species during tree planting. This…
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Green jobs restore hope and landscapes in southwest Ethiopia
Mohammed Jemal remembers a time when the days felt long and empty. Before August 2021, the young man from Seko,…
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Enriching the land and farmers’ lives through agroforestry in Ethiopia
In Gechi District, Oromia Region, where coffee has long been the backbone of rural livelihoods, a quiet shift is taking…
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Not just another media training: Rethinking environmental journalism in Central Africa
When journalists from across Central Africa gathered in Yaoundé in August, it quickly became clear that this was not just…
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Gedeo’s agroforestry legacy: Farming without losing forests
This article follows a visit to the Humbo Carbon Project, where communities restored degraded land through collective action. In Gedeo,…
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Learning from the Humbo experience: How community-led forest restoration delivers climate and livelihoods
A group of 25 people from various faith-based non-governmental organizations and government offices visited the South Ethiopia Region from 12…
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From emergency response to resilient food systems in Yangambi
Food insecurity remains a daily reality for many households in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Tshopo Province, where a…
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How community conservancies are restoring wildlife and biodiversity in Zambia’s KAZA Corridor
Across Africa, conserving biodiversity while supporting rural livelihoods has become an increasingly complex challenge. In Zambia’s Nyawa Chiefdom, this tension is particularly pronounced. Once…
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From drought to abundance: How climate-smart farming is transforming lives in Eastern Rwanda
Rwanda, situated in Eastern Africa, is a country of many hills, steep terrains and a vibrant population that depends heavily…
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Detecting the invisible: A breakthrough in the fight against swollen shoot in Côte d’Ivoire
In Vavoua, in west-central Côte d’Ivoire, a group of cocoa farmers gathers under a wooden shelter as they often do…
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Born in the Sahel, now global: A soil assessment method reshaping restoration science
Twenty years ago in Mali, Tor-Gunnar Vågen and colleagues began experimenting with a methodology to assess and map soil and land health; today, that early work has amplified into a framework with myriad applications for restoration across landscapes. …
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Ethiopia advanced national agroecology strategy with strong stakeholder consensus
“The main reason why agroecology has become so important is that collectively we have realized that we cannot work in…
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Educate, train, enforce: Towards a sustainable wild meat trade in Central Africa
Policies that seem sound on paper often falter in practice, as shown by ongoing efforts to regulate wild meat markets…
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