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CIFOR–ICRAF addresses local challenges and opportunities while providing solutions to global problems for forests, landscapes, people and the planet.

We deliver actionable evidence and solutions to transform how land is used and how food is produced: conserving and restoring ecosystems, responding to the global climate, malnutrition, biodiversity and desertification crises. In short, improving people’s lives.

ACTIVE PROJECT

Regional Platform Rp 6: Locally Managed Ecosystems ‘Promote Locally and Community Led Restoration, Conservation and Use Of Ecosystems In Africa’.

Regional Platform Rp 6: Locally Managed Ecosystems ‘Promote Locally and Community Led Restoration, Conservation and Use Of Ecosystems In Africa’.

Duration: May 2023 - December 2024

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Description

Ecosystems degradation, has emerged as a primary concern for policy makers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Degradation significantly reduce the ecosystems capacity to produce food, ecosystems services and sustain rural livelihoods. Expansion onto marginal lands has already taken place in many areas, and the subsequent degradation and inherent low productivity of the marginal lands is likely to pose a threat to feeding a fast-growing population. If ecosystems degradation is not adequately addressed, it is likely to jeopardize future food security and other ecosystems services for more people. Therefore, the ‘Locally Managed Ecosystems Initiative’ as one of the International Land Coalition Platform coordinated by World Agroforestry from May 2023 to December 2024 will enhance livelihoods, food and nutritional security, and resilience to climate change, and to restore ecosystem services for local communities and Indigenous People through ecosystems sustainable restoration, conservation and use. Understanding farmers perceptions of the drivers of land degradation, and their local knowledge on both degradation and restoration processes are preliminary steps towards building an inclusive approach that promotes sustainable ecosystems restoration by the rural and local communities. Key sub-Saharan ecosystems covered under this commitment are including, but not exclusively limited to the following: Drylands, Mountains, Marine and wetlands and Rainforests.

Ibrahim Toure

Principal Investigator

Details

Project locations

Mali

Project duration

May 2023 - December 2024
(1 year, 7 months)

Thematic areas

  • Mali

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

  • Decent work and economic growth
  • Life on land

Transformative Partnership Platforms (TPP)

  • Landscape Restoration

Flagship Products (FP)

  • Community-Based, Restoration and Monitoring System in degraded landscapes (A digital platform)

Project team

Ibrahim Toure

Associate Scientist - Land Restoration and Technology Intergration

Funders