Join us on a journey across the unique landscapes of the African continent and experience a day in the life of a changemaker. From the green forests of Akwa Ibom state in Nigeria, to the hills of Bamunkumbit in Cameroon, to the forests of Meru, Kenya, we will explore how the GLF’s Restoration Stewards and Chapters are taking action on the ground toward sustainable landscapes.
Explore and experience Africa through the Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) Programme‘s work and be part of the launch of a 3D photographic and video exhibition. Walk virtually through and learn how the SWM Programme is working to improve food security, wildlife conservation and sustainable wildlife use. Hear first-hand about the Programme from Dr. Robert Nasi, the Director General of CIFOR/ICRAF, and listen to our guest speaker Brent Stirton, a contributing National Geographic Photographer, share the background story to his images of wild meat in Africa. The event will also feature an SWM Programme country case study on our work in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Array ( )How can we transform food systems and develop green supply chains across Africa? This closing plenary will introduce the concept of innovative ecosystems, which are economic engines that scale innovations with high potential. They are fueled by collaboration and form support networks or enabling environments to elevate ideas, start-ups, and local organizations to their full potential. By working across sectors and geopolitical boundaries, Africa can combine modern innovation, science, local practices and traditional knowledge to attract the investment needed for a sustainable rural transformation.
Array ( )African artists are creating sounds that are sweeping the globe, enticing the world to lend an ear to the continent. How can we tap into this powerful flow of music and art that is the lifeblood of many African cultures to inspire a movement to restore degraded lands? Africans are paying a heavy price for the climate crisis, but local communities and political leaders alike are building resilience through initiatives like AFR100 and many others, as will be showcased at GLF Africa 2022. This evening, we will bring together African creatives across film, music, and art to not only share their work but also foster a dialogue to remind us all to embrace both local traditions and contemporary innovations as we strive toward a resilient and equitable future.
Array ( )Africa is losing an alarming 3.9 million hectares of forest ecosystems each year. This makes it crucial to create new development pathways to conserve and restore ecosystems, build sustainable food systems and create green jobs for the continent’s youth. There is an important role for green commodities in this equation, including sustainable cocoa, coffee, palm oil, corn, rice and wheat.
In November 2021, the GEF-funded Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration Impact Program (FOLUR) was launched with the aim of transforming the environmental footprint of agriculture. FOLUR consists of a global knowledge hub and 27 country projects targeting production landscapes for eight major commodities, including cocoa, coffee, corn, livestock, palm oil, rice, soy and wheat.
This plenary at GLF Africa will provide an opportunity for representatives of recently launched FOLUR country projects in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana, the world’s largest and second-largest exporter of cocoa respectively, to provide insights on their vision for an integrated program working across ministries, sectors and stakeholders. With lessons and perspectives from the cocoa value chain, the session will focus on ways to achieve green and zero-deforestation commodity value chains.
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Agriculture and forestry can provide crucial tools to support sustainable development and tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges, including hunger, malnutrition, climate change, and biodiversity loss, which have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
These challenges can only be addressed through a coordinated and cross-sectoral approach that presents agriculture and forestry as solutions. This includes conserving, restoring and sustainably managing forests, avoiding deforestation, and maintaining ecosystem services.
In this Digital Forum, we will showcase and promote best practices to enhance synergies, including agroforestry and the restoration of agrosilvopastoral lands, as well as the adoption of innovative approaches and the latest technologies, platforms, data and tools that support integrated landscape planning and informed decision-making.
The Digital Forum will be organized back-to-back to the 26th Session of the FAO Committee on Forestry (COFO26), and the 8th World Forest Week, to be held from 3–7 October. It will provide space for FAO, partners and FAO Members to discuss topics related to forestry and agriculture linkages, food security, financing, gender and inclusiveness, and digital innovations. FAO has been a GLF Charter Member since 2021.
The digital forum Transforming agrifood systems with forests took place online on 29 September and showcased and promoted best practices to enhance synergies, including agroforestry and the restoration of agrosilvopastoral lands, as well as the adoption of innovative approaches and the latest technologies, platforms, data and tools that support integrated landscape planning and informed decision-making.
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In this high-level panel, speakers will offer regional perspectives on the role of forestry in sustainable and resilient agrifood systems with a focus on drylands and grazing with trees.
During this session the policy brief What have we learned from trees? Three decades of farmer field schools on agroforestry and forestry will be launched.
The Forest Data Partnership – eliminating supply chain deforestation and catalyzing ecosystem restoration through better data
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In this webinar, speakers from Benin, Kenya, and Burkina Faso will present how social innovations for soil restoration were developed at the community level and the changes they have brought about. This will be followed by an expert panel that will reflect on the opportunities and challenges of bringing such innovations to scale.
The One World, No Hunger (EWOH) initiative of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has opened a space for transformation and innovation through collective efforts, vast investments and mutual learning across a broad partner network.
Given the central role of soils in the transformation of agri-food systems, one of the initiative’s core programs is Soil Protection and Rehabilitation for Food Security (ProSoil). Soils are more than a means of production. They are the largest carbon sink on land, host a quarter of the world’s biodiversity and play a key role in water purification, nutrient cycling, and many other functions.
Social innovations for soil restoration
Implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, ProSoil seeks to restore and protect over 2 million hectares in six African countries and India by 2025. However, a major challenge facing such programs is the long-term adoption of sustainable land management (SLM) practices. When program support ends, farmers often stop applying the promoted technologies.
Against this backdrop, the EWOH places accompanying research at the heart of its approach to development cooperation, led by TMG Research, a think tank based in Berlin. The research project served as a platform and breeding ground for innovation through social ‘experimentation’ around alternative ways to implement solutions. TMG, GIZ and local partners developed and piloted social innovations in Kenya, Benin, and Burkina Faso to address socio-cultural and governance barriers to SLM technology adoption. Developed in multi-stakeholder settings, the innovations address issues of land tenure security and farmer-to-farmer knowledge transfer. As locally adapted and socially legitimate solutions, they create a strong enabling environment for farmers to implement SLM measures on a broad, long-term scale.
This session will present the GIZ global programme on “Soil Protection and Restoration for Food Security”, an initiative that has already protected or rehabilitated over 483,000 hectares of land and that benefits over 1.3 million people. The session will also highlight the role of soils in the transformation of our agri-food systems.
This session will introduce the topic of social innovations, and how these can become alternative approaches to address local governance gaps that prevent smallholders from investing in soil restoration.
Speakers from Benin, Burkina Faso and Kenya will share their experiences in developing locally developed social innovations to improve soil restoration. The innovations cover topics of land tenure security and farmer-to-farmer knowledge transfer.
Experts representing the government, donor and UN organizations will reflect on the previous presentations and discuss how locally developed solutions to soil restoration can be upscaled.
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Programme Lead – Nature-based Solutions, TMG Research
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Engagement and Growth Coordinator
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Hosted digitally and in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, the GLF and TMG Research, with partners, organized a series of side events in English and French, white papers, Q&As with experts, and more. Viewed by thousands of people, the side events provided critical insights on some of the most critical issues of our time: desertification, land degradation and drought.
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Read about the events on Landscape News, check out our social media coverage, read the white papers, or re-watch the sessions to hear local actors and leading experts discuss how to combat land degradation, protect the tenure rights of smallholders, and adapt to climate change and drought.
Join policymakers, the private sector, international organizations, NGOs, researchers, human rights actors, restoration practitioners and many more live at the world’s largest drylands conference!
From 9–20 May 2022, the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) will organize a series of side events at the fifteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
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Smallholders need secure land tenure to ensure investments in ecosystem restoration and food security and land-based adaptation options for millions of people around the world. As the global community scrambles to address multiple crises, responsible land governance is more urgent than ever before.
In this context, TMG Research and its partners have developed a human rights-based approach to land governance monitoring, including a reference tool called the Human Rights and Land Navigator, which they will launch during this side event session. The online tool aims to make the UN-backed Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries, and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT) more tangible by detailing the human rights on which they are based.
During the session, UNCCD stakeholders and human rights actors discussed the potential of the international human rights system and the new tool to enhance the implementation of the VGGT and safeguard legitimate tenure rights for ecosystem restoration. The event provided practical entry points for land rights defenders, national-level policymakers and human rights bodies to advocate for and monitor progress on land governance instruments.
During this session, we learned how land degradation neutrality relates to land tenure security and why tenure security is important to combat the further degradation of land. We learned how land tenure security is embedded in a wider spectrum of human rights and what is needed to secure these multiple rights for those living on and from the land. We learned from local, regional and global actors, what instruments they use to align legal frameworks with local realities, and what it takes to bridge formal legislation with informal realities on the ground. Finally, we discussed the pros and cons of multi-stakeholder dialogue, which is increasingly seen as an instrument to bridge the two and help strengthen land tenure security for all.
Young Africans have strong visions for their land: their stories of restoring landscapes are also stories of young people defining their own narratives of a good life and creating multiple, contradictory and coexisting futures across the continent. In this short session co-created by the World Agroforestry Center, the Global Landscapes Forum and the Youth in Landscapes Initiative young Kenyan restoration practitioner Adrian Leitoro shared his thoughts and experiences, focusing on the importance of healthy landscapes for climate adaptation and food sovereignty in Africa.
People living in drylands and areas affected by degradation are amongst the most vulnerable to climate change impacts. To protect their livelihoods, it is crucial to take measures to avoid, reduce, and reverse land degradation as well as ensure the security of their land tenure, as was recognized and highlighted at UNCCD COP14 in 2019 through the COP14/26 decision on land tenure.
This side event hosted by the TMG Think Tank for Sustainability outlined progress made by Parties to the Convention since COP14 on aligning national land degradation neutrality plans with the COP14/26 decision and highlighted opportunities to further scale up existing efforts. It also addressed the importance of land tenure for land-based adaptation and responses to drought.
Find all CIFOR-ICRAF activities at UNCCD COP15 here
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The AGRF, Africa’s premier forum for food and agriculture, has launched its 12th annual summit under the theme Grow, Nourish and Reward – Bold Actions for Resilient F: Grow, Nourish and Reward – Bold Actions for Resilient Food Systemsood Systems’ to be held in Kigali Rwanda from September 5 to 9, 2022.
This year’s summit will call for accelerated action by leaders, innovators, businesses, private institutions, civil society, and development agencies to put forward bold actions and unite efforts towards the continental food security agenda.
Recognizing the urgency to deliver on the Malabo commitments and the sustainable development goals (SDGs), the AGRF 2022 summit will spotlight the ongoing efforts and country-led actions that can be scaled up towards food systems that deliver for the people, planet, and prosperity.
Speaking during the launch event, the Right Honourable Dr. Edouard Ngirente, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Rwanda reiterated Rwanda’s confidence in the AGRF 2022 to come up with a sustainable solution to the food system issue on the African continent.
“Rwanda is confident that the AGRF 2022 Summit will come up with concrete actions that can build sustainable and resilient food systems to feed nearly 256 million reportedly suffering from severe food insecurity on the African continent. Commodities such as beef, grain wheat, sugar, rice and soybeans that Africa has been importing, can be better produced on the continent if we implement the right policies.”
The Prime Minister of Rwanda welcomed delegates from across the continent and beyond to participate and contribute to the AGRF 2022 Summit.
The Summit will mobilize private and public investments, innovations, and country-based solutions and celebrate initiatives that are actionable and scalable in delivering food systems transformation.
H.E. Hailemariam Dessalegn, the former Prime Minister of Ethiopia and the AGRF Chair said that while African leaders have shown commitment to support food systems transformation, collective action will be needed to accelerate progress and real change.
“No country is healthy unless food and livelihoods are healthy. Delivering for the planet, people, and prosperity will require collective efforts from all sectors. However, African governments should lead these efforts by prioritising and integrating policies that address multiple objectives including those that call for healthy and nutritious diets, decent income for the farmers and policies that address climate and other environmental fragilities.”
He added that as Africa builds back from the effects of the pandemic, leaders should ensure the pace lost in agriculture and food systems transformation is picked up to ensure the wholesome growth of people across the continent.
The AGRF 2022 Summit will be hosted by the Government of Rwanda and the AGRF Partner’s Group, the Summit comes at a pivotal time, a crossroads in Africa’s recovery and progress towards the deadline for zero hunger by 2030.
Some of the key highlights at this year’s AGRF 2022 Summit will include the Agribusiness Deal Room, a platform for connecting innovators with critically needed capital, the Presidential Summit, Farmers Forum, and a Youth Townhall.
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