Publications & Tools

A joint analysis carried out by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the African Union Development Agency-NEPAD and presents the successes so far and the remaining difficulties and opportunities across the continent in restoring land degraded by conversion and forest clearance, overuse of natural resources, urbanization, drought, and other factors.

This report documents the key outcomes and lessons learned from the Sahel and West Africa Program in support of the Great Green Wall (SAWAP) from 2012 to 2019.

With 59 countries, subnational governments and private organizations having made pledges to restore over 168 million hectares, the support of regional initiatives such as the AFR100 and Initiative 20x20, and tremendous high-level political support across all regions, the Bonn Challenge has raised the profile on restoration across the board. This report shows through policy analysis in 13 selected countries that linkages and complementarity between the nature and objectives of Bonn Challenge pledges and the Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) targets are robust, therefore the opportunity to optimize synergies and impact needs to be realized. Pathway to this include strengthening (inter)sectoral coordination, consolidating reporting schemes for Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) and LDN, and aligning investments and actions within the national restoration agendas and LDN agendas.

A 10-year project in the East Usambara mountains of Tanzania improved the prospects for people and threatened forests.

This report is a summary results and synthesis of the plenary sessions and parallel working groups of the proceedings of the Third Annual Partner Meeting of the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100), held at the InterContinental Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya, 26th -28th August 2018. 

We, the participants gathered in Niamey on September 26th and 27th 2017 for the second AFR100 Annual Partnership Meeting, hosted by the Government of Niger, the NEPAD Agency and partners issue this “Niamey Call for Action on the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative”.

Governance Note

African Leadership Commitment to the Bonn Challenge and AFR100

Malawi and Mozambique have experiences to offer to the region from the assessments of restoration opportunities they have undertaken. These are providing information on restoration interventions and the multiple benefits they will bring, which will guide implementation of their Bonn Challenge and AFR100 commitments.

Many countries have experience with monitoring and many countries are already restoring lands. However, monitoring restoration is a different process than monitoring deforestation.

This handbook presents the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM), which provides a flexible and affordable framework for countries to rapidly identify and analyse FLR potential and locate special areas of opportunity at a national or sub-national level.

Through AFR100, national governments, public and private sector partners, international development programs and local communities will restore productivity to deforested and degraded landscapes in order to improve livelihoods.

A Practical Approach to Forest and Landscape Restoration