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The Regreening Africa project is restoring 1 million hectares in Mali, Niger, Ghana, Senegal, Ethiopia and Somalia, with funding from the European Union. The project recently developed a Regreening Africa App for use on mobile phones. Betty Rabar explains its uses and the enthusiastic reception from development workers, in the European Union’s international development and cooperation site.…

Traditional African vegetables have high potential to contribute to healthy diets and climate resilience in subSaharan African food systems. However, their genetic resources are likely at threat because they are underutilized and under the radar of agricultural research. This paper aims to contribute to a conservation agenda for traditional African vegetables by examining the geographical…

Across much of the world, agricultural systems, ecosystem health, landscape integrity, and rural resource-based livelihoods are in crisis, with major planetary boundaries having already been transgressed. Over the next few decades, agriculture and food systems likely will be forced to go through an extraordinary transition to meet food production in a more sustainable way. This…

Climate emergency threatens to push 130 million people into extreme poverty by 2030, yet local people are often left out of decisions and funding; momentum emerges to shift status quo Forty governments, leading global institutions and local and international NGOs, including the United Kingdom and Irish governments, UN Development Programme, Climate Investment Funds, Zurich Investment…

The world's climate is changing. The cause is well understood: emissions of greenhouse gases resulting from human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels for heat, electricity and transportation; industrial processes; and changes in land use. Climate change threatens to undermine progress in nearly every area of human development. It poses substantial risks to food production,…

Over 3 billion people around the world grapple with the consequences of land degradation. Damaged forests, farms, grasslands and mangroves lead to less water and food, declining rural incomes and creeping deserts. In 2019, the world lost 11.9 million hectares of tree cover in the tropics, the rough equivalent of 4 billion trees — an area the size of Honduras or the U.S. state of…