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Restoration of degraded land for food security and poverty reduction in East Africa and the Sahel: taking successes in land restoration to scale

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Project goal is to reduce food insecurity and improve livelihoods of poor people living in African drylands by restoring degraded land and returning it to effective and sustainable tree, crop and livestock production, thereby increasing land profitability as well as landscape and livelihood resilience.
    Publication year

    2016

    Authors

    World Agroforestry

    Language

    English

    Keywords

    degraded land, land rehabilitation, food security, livelihoods

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