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This session explores the potential of existing scientific evidence, data, metrics, tools, methods and partnerships that CGIAR has generated as leveraging points for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Panellists draw on key successes and lessons learned to provide policy and investment recommendations for achieving the vision of the Decade, identify synergies and trade-offs with other development outcomes, and consolidate factors affecting the sustainability of restoration initiatives.

Restoration of Degraded Landscapes in Africa: Lessons for the Future

Publisher: Global Landscapes Forum (GLF)

Language: English

Year: 2021

Ecosystem(s): Drylands and Rangelands

Location(s): Africa

HOST

CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)

SPEAKERS

Birhanu Zemadim Birhanu

Senior Scientist and Project Leader, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
Lulseged Tamene Desta

Senior Soil Scientist, Biodiversity-CIAT
Ermias Betemariam

Land Health Scientist , World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
Stefan Uhlenbrook

Program Director, CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE), IWMI
Marlène Elias

Senior Scientist-Multifunctional Landscapes, Alliance and Gender Research Coordinator for the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry, Biodiversity-CIAT
Chris Dickens

Principal Researcher Ecosystems, International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Marcela Quintero

Director, Multifunctional Landscape research area, Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
Natalia Estrada-Carmona

Associate Scientist, Biodiversity-CIAT
Kalifa Traoré

Scientific Director, Mali Agricultural Research Institute (IER)
Heizal Nagginda

Climate and environmental activist, Founder, Climate Operation
Anthony Whitbread

Research Program Director, Innovation Systems for the Drylands and Country Representative, Tanzania, ICRISAT
Mordecai Ogada

Executive Director, Conservation Solutions Afrika