Having been in the works for a while, Climate Week in New York was chosen as the time to launch the campaign and a group of team members from the Global EverGreening Alliance (GEA) arrived from Germany, India, France, the Netherlands, Australia, Kenya and the United States to coordinate the week’s events. It was a…
As Right Livelihood Laureate, Tony Rinaudo, inspires the launch of a global campaign to EverGreen the Earth, the Right Livelihood Foundation prepares to announce its newest award recipients. The Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. The 2019 Laureates will be announced in Stockholm on 25 September at 09:00…
The third in the series of “Beating Famine” Conferences will focus on the Sahel, leveraging farmer-managed natural regeneration (FMNR) and evergreening success to inspire a continental movement. Participants from across the Sahel, along with donor agencies and representatives of governments, universities, CBO’s and civil society will come together to share, learn, plan and accelerate the evergreening…
by Alan Channer ‘Regreening Africa’ is a multi-country project, funded by the European Union, with the goal of scaling up evergreen agriculture to 500,000 farm households, over an area of over one million hectares. Patrick Worms, Senior Science Policy Advisor at the World Agroforestry Centre, worked on the conception of the project. He emphasises that…
by Sebastian Mathews The African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100) is an African Union-led effort to bring 100 million hectares of land in Africa into restoration by 2030. Dakar, the beautiful coastal capital of Senegal and Africa’s westernmost city, was recently the site of the first AFR100 technical partners meeting, bringing together more than 75…
Supported by major partners such as UNCCD, IUCN and Global Evergreening Alliance, this 5 day residential course aims to connect the dots between land, security and climate change. Land degradation, conflict, climate change, population pressure and poor governance can interact in negative feedback loops, directly impacting the health and livelihoods of 1.5 billion people. On…