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

Trend in biomass productivity by farming system

AFRICA HAS THE WORLD’S LARGEST RESTORATION OPPORTUNITY

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?

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

The Parkland Renaissance on Niger Farmlands

Farmer-Managed Regeneration of trees has been massively upscaled on the croplands in Niger

• 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

Kigali

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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

Conservation agriculture with reduced tillage and trees increases productivity while restoring land quality and reducing labor.

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

• 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

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…