Burundi
Restoration Commitment
Restoration Commitment:
2 million hectares
Year Committed:
2015
Priority Interventions:
- Establishment and Sustainable Management of Tree Plantations
- Protection, Natural Regeneration and Fire Protection of Parks and Natural Reserves
- Agroforestry Development: from mixed Tree-cop systems to Woodlots depending of degree of steepness
- Erosion through progressive terracing with grasses/trees/shrubs planting
- Flood control
- Ecological agriculture
- Gullies restoration
- River banks protection
- Natural regeneration
Alignment with domestic targets:
- Burundi 2025 Vision
- Burundi National Strategy and Action Plan for Land degradation Control;
- Burundi National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP);
- Burundi National Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan;
- Burundi Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan
- Burundi National Agriculture Strategy
- National Strategy and Action Plan for reduction of disaster risks and management of disasters;
- National Forest Landscape Restoration Programme
- National REDD+ Strategy and INDC of Burundi
- National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Action Plan
Requested assistance from AFR100:
- Restoration pledge to Bonn Challenge—support from AFR100
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