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

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


  • 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



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