Last week, at the Global Landscapes Forum held in Kenya, conservation experts called for the wider integration of social protection programming with biodiversity goals.
Organized by the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry, or CIFOR-ICRAF, the event was themed “Greening the African Horizon,” and focused on how Africa can navigate the climate crisis.
One of the projects showcased in the forum was Trees on Farm for Biodiversity, a German government-funded program implemented by CIFOR-ICRAF. The seven-year program, which just ended, was implemented in Uganda and Rwanda among other countries, and sought to build awareness among governments of the potential of trees on farms for meeting both development objectives and biodiversity commitments.